Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Cuba's economic crisis, aggravated by the sanctions imposed by the first Trump administration and the COVID pandemic, crippled an already severe social situation in 2024.The government struggled, with limited success, to implement a macro-economic stabilization program, but the persistent shortage of foreign exchange currency led to longer and more frequent electrical blackouts, worsening food shortages, and deteriorating public services.Internationally, Russia and China provided some emergency supplies, but no nation stepped forward to offer Cuba resources on the scale needed to escape the crisis.Cubans reacted to deteriorating living standards as they so often have in the past, my emigrating to the United Staes and, increasingly, to Latin America and Spain.Despite pervasive popular discontent, the government managed to maintain social control by suppressing organized opposition, leaving no viable path for a transition from authoritarian rule.
Source: Revista de ciencia política
Authors: Eric Hershberg, William Leogrande
Institution: American University
Language: Spanish
Topic: Cuban History and Society
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4415029504
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