Cuba’s future

The period following the disintegration of the Soviet Union was the most critical in Cuba. Even the most optimistic thought Communist Cuba would die a natural death in the absence of Soviet economic and military assistance. What Castro did was to attempt further ideological rigidity. He rejected perestroika and simply fine-tuned the existing politico-economic structures without disowning Marxism-Leninism. Doing more with less became the battle cry of Cuban leaders. Today, that option doesn’t exist.