Luci Fernandes&Denis Rey

POLITICAL ANALYSIS

1959 Cuban Revolution 1960-63 US Embargo 1961 Bay of Pigs 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 1980 Mariel Boatlift 1991 Collapse of the USSR 2008 Raul Castro

Alpha 66 Training Camp

1991 2007TIGHTENING THE EMBARGO

Strongly Favor 73.8 57.5SUPPORT EXILE INVASION

Strongly Favor 62.0 58.4SUPPORT US INVASION

Strongly Favor 49.3 43.7

One-Party Rule Continues (Socialism)

Island-Based Regime Emerges (Social Democracy)

US-Based Regime Emerges (Capitalist Democracy)

FROM SOCIALISM FROM CAPITALISM

Universal Healthcare

Free Education

Guaranteed Pensions

Private Ownership

Business Enterprise

Free Trade

Incremental move from a one-party rule towards a socialist type of democratic rule for

Cuba

ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES OF CUBA

Cultural Relativistic perspective

Social disconnect over the past 50 years

Understanding the Cuban social project

Cuban Daily Life State Run Social Programs Capitalist Enterprises and the Socialist

State Loosening of State Control Conclusion Question and Answer

Average Monthly Salary on average is 350 Cuban National pesos – US $17.

25 MN to the dollar

Self-Employed Need to pay taxes 20% - 50%

Artists, Farmers, Tourist Industry (particulares y paladares)

Value in your social relations

“Kin”

Social cohesion and connectedness

“capital” implies economic benefits

Training Doctors from around the world

Exporting doctors

Solidifying relations with trade partners

“We get each month, and it certainly is not enough to get fat, but everybody gets it each month, whether you work or not. Every 15 days, we get rice, beans, vegetable oil, chicken, coffee, bread, 6 eggs, and sugar. You get this stuff twice a month for sure. Sometimes people trade with each other eggs and milk, etc. For whatever else you need then you have to go to the market” (Male 38, Professor of Philosophy Univ. of Havana).

Before the Revolution

After the 1960s

Today