Inside Cuba

Cuba is not the only country in which life has become more S difficult in the 1990s. But it is a country in which the difficulties of daily life have given rise to an intellectual ferment that may be more anguished than in other places, challenging once-firm assumptions and suggesting solutions that question deeply held beliefs. As the space for dialogue and debate broadens with the playing out of the economic crisis, voices from within Cuba have become increasingly assertive and interesting to listen to. In this Report we offer some of those voices and some of the questions being debated—if sometimes in veiled terminology—"within the revolution.” We look through the eyes of some who are living through the ongoing crisis and trying to work their way out of it.

March/April
1999
Volume: 
32
Number: 
5