THE CRISIS IN CUBA CONTINUES

Cuba has been affected in many ways by the collapse of the Soviet empi re. Orientation, confidence in the system, and the centre of leadershi p have been lost. What is more, Havana has been deprived of the massiv e material support of the former USSR, which had sustained the unsucce ssful experiment of Cuban socialism for decades. Klaus Fritsche from t he Federal Institute for East European and International Studies in Co logne examines the consequences of this development and how the Castro regime is responding to the new challenge.