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Article: Cuban Civil Society: I. Reinterpreting the Debate

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NACLA Report on the Americas
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January 1, 2006
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ANY ANALYSIS OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN CUBA faces two major difficulties, one of a theoretical and the other of a political nature. The theoretical difficulty stems from ambiguities in the way the concept of civil society is used in the contemporary social sciences. The political difficulty arises from the liberal use of the term "civil society" in conflicting political discourse about the Cuban reality. The U.S. government, the most rightwing sectors in exile and so-called "dissident groups" inside the country have raised the battle cry of building and strengthening civil society in Cuba-assuming that none exists-as a means of bringing down the existing political-social system.

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