Cuba: o poder popular e as reformas políticas no período especial

Abstract

Even if the history process has repeatedly pointed out as fundamental the political instance in the countries that had chosen the surmounting of the capitalism, it has been object of few studies, many times treated as something determined and without decisiveness in the society experiences. The Popular Power, central element of the political sphere in the project of communist transition, assumed, with the socialist guiding of the Cuban Revolution, a role of great importance, as it articulated a new form of exercise of politics that resulted in too specific political representation and participation. As this new form of political power was being developed, its relationship with the Cuban revolutionary process and the due historic processes, as well as its contradictions and reforms through which it always passed, aiming at the deepening of the socialist democracy, that s the target of our study.