Politics and Civil Society in Cuba

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Table of Contents

Preface v

Raúl Castro a la hora de las decisiones

Janette Habel 1

The Cuban Revolution Today: Proposals of Changes, Scenarios, and Alternatives

Francisco López Segrera 23

Parameters, Uncertainty and Recognition: The Politics of Culture in Cuba

Yvon Grenier 65

Cuba: los retos de una reforma heterodoxa de la institucionalidad

Carlos Alzugaray and Armando Chaguaceda 87

Usos y desusos del derecho en la Cuba socialista actual

Mylai Burgos Matamoros 105

Legal Dissent: Constitutional Proposals for “Cambio” in Cuba

Ana Cristina Maldonado 133

Cuban Freemasons in the Development of Civil Society and of a Political Opening

Jorge Luis Romeu 171

The Impact of the Expansion of the Religious Media in Contemporary Cuba

Margaret Crahan 187

Indirect Confrontation:The Evolution of the Political Strategy of the Cuban

Catholic Church

Robert Portada 203

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