Eusebio Mujal-León

Eusebio Mujal-León is associate professor of government at Georgetown University and director of the Cuba XXI Project there. His books include Communism and Political Change in Spain (1983), European Socialism and the Conflict in Central America (1989), and The USSR and Latin America (1989).

January 2009, Volume 20, Issue 1

Can Cuba Change? Tensions in the Regime

Although the transfer of power from Fidel to Raúl has been relatively uneventful, potential divisions within the ruling elite, especially between the military and the Party, are likely to emerge before too long.