Cuba: Its People, Its Society, Its Culture (Latin America in Focus)

By: Ted A. Henken and Miriam Celaya González and Dimas C. Castellanos Martí and Armando Chaguaceda and Oscar Espinosa Chepe and Henry Constantín and Regina Coyula and Fernándo Dámaso and Reinaldo Escobar and Dayrom Gil and Marlene Azor Hernández and Maritza de los Ángeles Hidalgo-Gato Lima and Rogelio Fabio Hurtado and César Leal Jiménez and Miriam Leiva and Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo and Yoani Sánchez and Miguel Iturria Savón and Wilfredo Vallín

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Synopsis: Written by some of the best-known independent scholars, citizen journalists, cyber-activists, and bloggers living in Cuba today, this book presents a critical, complete, and unbiased overview of contemporary Cuba.In this era of ever-increasing globalization and communication across national borders, Cuba remains an isolated island oddly out of step with the rest of the world. And yet, Cuba is beginning to evolve via the important if still insufficient changes instituted by Raul Castro, who became president in 2008. This book supplies a uniquely independent, accurate, and critical perspective in order to evaluate these changes in the context of the island's rich and complex history and culture. Organized into seven topical chapters that address geography, history, politics and government, economics, society, culture, and contemporary issues, readers will gain a broad, insightful understanding of one of the most unusual, fascinating, and often misunderstood nations in the Western Hemisphere.

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