Documentos CIDOB América Latina; 9

An analysis of the current situation of radicalisation in the Cuban political panorama as a consequence of the consolidation of the two apparently most important positions in the political scene of this country, which are clearly and conflictingly opposed with respect to each other: the liberal one (conservative and plutocratic) and the egalitarian one (authoritarian and autocratic). The essential methodological and ideological contradictions of both models, as well as the absolute lack of rapprochement and/or pacting between them, lead the author to underscore the idea that a political future in the hands of one or the other camp, without any other presence, could spell disastrous consequences for the island’s political and social future. In this sense, he indicates that the reponse for a transition in the Cuban political scene must involve either a pact and a conceding of terrain to the adversary or a transition led by civic positions which are more moderate and open to dialogue.

Ignasi Pérez Martínez, Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science, University of Barcelona

ISSN: 1697-7688 (print edition)

ISSN: 1697-8137 (online edition)

46 pp.

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