"Perfecting" The System Of Control

Cubans are all too familiar with their government’s perennial campaigns to “perfect” all aspects of Cuban society. Yet after more than three decades in power, Fidel Castro’s government has succeeded in perfecting nothing so much as its pervasive system of control. With the collapse of world communism and the Cuban economy in free fall, this system has increased in importance as a foundation for the government’s maintenance of power. This report documents the government’s increasingly abusive campaign during 1992 to retain power.