{"title":"The Cuban Autocratic Regime: Between Resilience and Challenges","authors":"Armando Chaguaceda","doi":"10.1111/lamp.70008","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div>\n \n <p>The Cuban political regime, the only autocracy belonging to the Soviet model in the western hemisphere, shows a greater duration and stability to the rest of regional authoritarianisms. Transiting a totalitarian stage to a post-technical model, it has combined elements such as charismatic leadership and bureaucracy, military and civil power, coercion, and propaganda. But in the last years, it faces a growing social discontent and a huge increase in migration, derived from its inability to provide goods and services, of the exhaustion of its legitimacy, everything that puts in question the survival of the regime and the elite that governs it.</p>\n </div>","PeriodicalId":42501,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Policy","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Latin American Policy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/lamp.70008","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"POLITICAL SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Cuban political regime, the only autocracy belonging to the Soviet model in the western hemisphere, shows a greater duration and stability to the rest of regional authoritarianisms. Transiting a totalitarian stage to a post-technical model, it has combined elements such as charismatic leadership and bureaucracy, military and civil power, coercion, and propaganda. But in the last years, it faces a growing social discontent and a huge increase in migration, derived from its inability to provide goods and services, of the exhaustion of its legitimacy, everything that puts in question the survival of the regime and the elite that governs it.
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Latin American Policy (LAP): A Journal of Politics and Governance in a Changing Region, a collaboration of the Policy Studies Organization and the Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Pública, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Santa Fe Campus, published its first issue in mid-2010. LAP’s primary focus is intended to be in the policy arena, and will focus on any issue or field involving authority and polities (although not necessarily clustered on governments), agency (either governmental or from the civil society, or both), and the pursuit/achievement of specific (or anticipated) outcomes. We invite authors to focus on any crosscutting issue situated in the interface between the policy and political domain concerning or affecting any Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) country or group of countries. This journal will remain open to multidisciplinary approaches dealing with policy issues and the political contexts in which they take place.