Abstract

Saving Cuba

The article provide information related to the book "Problems of the New Cuba," a report of the Commission on Cuban Affairs. After thirty-five years of American persuasion, coercion, and buzzing experts, there is still no democracy in Cuba, the school system has rotted away, health control has not advanced, militarism grips the island, and trade during the depression has dropped to a pre-independence level. The people have a Sunday-school, made-in-the-U.S.. constitution, but less economic independence and more starvation than under Spanish rule. For three decades Cubans have come to own less and less of their own country. Cuba today is a sick country growing sicker. This book is a part of an American program, invited by Cuban President Carlos Mendieta, the Foreign Policy Association, financed by the Rockefeller Foundation, sent eleven experts for two months last year to investigate "the new Cuba" "in complete scientific independence."