Fin de siècle à La Havane

"An indispensable book for anyone seeking to understand the reasons for Castroism's failures in the 1990s. Likely to be the definitive investigation of the Ochoa trial and its consequences; larger issues confronting Cuban communism make up the balance of the book. In the end, Cuba drifts (sin ataduras), and authors claim that since 1992, Cuba lives its paradoxical independence"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.