Cuba

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 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.