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Helen Yaffe

Helen Yaffe is a lecturer in economic and social theory at the University of Glasgow. Her latest book is We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World.

How Cuba Survived

For decades, commentators predicted that Cuba’s socialist model couldn’t survive without the USSR or Fidel Castro. They were wrong – and even in the face of continued sanctions, its unique system endures.