While the decline in support for democracy in Latin America is due to its inefficiency in generating more equality before the law, justice, dignity and wealth distribution, the Cuban case should serve as a reminder that authoritarianism does not provide these either.
Cuba is perhaps the most atypical of today's Latin American autocracies. Its history of democratic elections dates back to the period from 1940 to 1950.
Since the end of the Cold War, the dispute has not been between the U.S. and the Cuban governments, as the island claims, but between the exiles and the totalitarian Cuban regime.
It does not seem that the authorities are capable of solving the fundamental reason that favors the abandonment of the local positions of the People's Power: the structural crisis of the political regime.
