Description:
After Fidel Castro's retirement from his main governmental positions, Cuba finds itself at a crossroads. Two main challenges emerge, one economic and one political. The economic one arises from the need to design a productive system that resolves the imbalance between workers' salaries and the actual distribution of basic goods and the imbalance between different sectors of society without destroying the revolution's social achievements. The political one must deal with the creation of a new form of governance and consensus building in the absence of the revolution's founder and leader. The changes to be introduced require the broadening of democracy. These challenges entail a national deliberation process during the Sixth Congress of the Cuban Communist Party that will identify several fundamental issues.