"The Cuban Transition: Imagined and Actual" (video) -

"The Cuban Transition: Imagined and Actual" (video)

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Rafael Hernández is the editor of Temas, the leading Cuban magazine in the social sciences and the humanities, which is renowned for its contribution to intellectual controversy on the island. Hernández addresses Cuba's unique social diversity and the emergence of growing inequality that accompanied and has followed the crisis of the 1990s.

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