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Where Does Cuba Stand?

出版	Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 1994
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Sv3pwTR0yzIC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Is Cuba different? Ever since the fall of the Berlin wall in November 1989, and particularly since the disintegration of the Soviet Union in summer 1991, predictions about the imminent collapse of the Castro regime have been more frequent. Scholars and qualified analysts agree that the regime confronts its worst crisis ever and that it can not possibly escape it unscathed. By this they do not mean that the regime will inevitably fall, only that to avoid more catastrophic alternatives, including widespread violence or outright civil war, the historic revolutionary leadership must innovate considerably more than it has ever been willing to. Indeed, it appeared that to prevent a complete national collapse that would destroy the regime, the leadership had already introduced changes that it would normally have refused to even consider. If the Cuban leadership is acting under duress, why have we not witnessed more dramatic developments? If social and economic conditions are so harsh and growing worse, why have people not gone into the street to march and protest? Why are we yet to witness domestic political opposition effectively challenging the regime? Why have the leaders in the so-called left-wing of the Cuban Communist Party refrained from expressing their criticisms and disagreements in public? Why have the armed forces apparently remained loyal? Is Cuba unique?