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    Default Doing a research paper on Cuba under Castro

    I have a ton of books, but I'd like to have a few more academic journals to reference

    Does anyone know of any scholarly articles online pertaining to:

    The restructuring of the Cuban economy post-revolution

    The Cuban justice system

    Healthcare in Cuba

    Comparisons of modern Cuban political/economic life with pre-revolution Cuba or other Latin American countries?
    "The nationalism of the workers belonging to an oppressor nation binds them to their rulers and only does harm to themselves, while the nationalism of an oppressed nation can lead them to fight back against those rulers."

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    Any interesting papers or articles could cite are more then welcome! Obviously I'm going to be defending socialism in this paper
    "The nationalism of the workers belonging to an oppressor nation binds them to their rulers and only does harm to themselves, while the nationalism of an oppressed nation can lead them to fight back against those rulers."

    - Chris Harman

    "What do you call a thousand IMF economists lying at the bottom of the sea...?

    ... A good start" - Russian joke
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    Comparisons of modern Cuban political/economic life with pre-revolution Cuba or other Latin American countries?
    this is easy to do your self. choose several indications or indices, like GDP, tonnes of export or what ever and look for a country list of that. also there is some index which measures the realtive distribution of income in a country,
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    also see the film "The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil":

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...7928384&hl=en#

    and 638 ways to kill fidel castro

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...97521595164067
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    His biography "The Real Fidel Castro" is a pretty objective one and details the economic plans of Cuba in the later chapters; their attempts at industrialization, their reasons for difficulty distributing milk (so few cattle do well in the Caribbean), their dependent relationship with sugar exportation, etc. Worth a look.

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