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A relatively small island just southeast of Florida, Cuba ranks only in the third tier of Latin American nations in populations, with 10 million compared to fourteen times that figure for Brazil. But its importance to today's world is certainly far more than its size, population, and limited resources would indicate. Until a generation ago a near protectorate of at a low cost, Cuba has come to represent both the road to and the costs of braking such dependency. US. domination is by now history, but the dilemma of marginal viability has been resolved not by economic bloc. In return for massive economic subsidization by the USSR, Cuba has assumed a role as the foothold of the Communist world in the western hemisphere- sort of a West Berlin in reverse on a much greater scale. As such, its future remains insecure, partially mortgaged to the uncertain tides of the East-West confrontation. In this context Cuba presents an almost impossible challenge to the scholar who would describe what exists there, explain how this has come about, and analyze why Cuba has turned out to be only the Mexico's 1910 upheaval and subsequent civil war). Indeed, the subject of contemporary Cuba arouses passio

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Author

Juan M. Del Aguila

Publisher

WESTVIEW PRESS,INC.

Published

1988

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813300320

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Anthropology