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Those who have opted for gradual changes were more successful, while those who chose abrupt radical projects failed.

The most surprising claim of some sympathizers of the Cuban system is that it is democratic. This is argued in spite of the dictatorial one-party state and the repression that State Security carries out on a routine basis to maintain the regime in power, and that many of its most important decisions, such as the agrarian reform in 1959 were mainly carried out from above and not from below.

Having survived the US blockade for 64 years, Cuba is enduring its worst economic crisis since the collapse of the USSR.

Samuel Farber defends his critique of Che Guevara as an anti-democratic figure that undermined the socialist cause in Cuba.

Javier Herrera writes in Havana Times: The Day Cuba Was Lost On Tuesday, January 8, 1959, Fidel Castro entered Havana leading the “Caravan of Liberty,” which practically marked the beginning of the end of freedom in Cuba. A large group of poorly dressed men in olive-green military uniforms, armed and bearded, aboard jeeps and trucks,