The Cuban Autocratic Regime: Between Resilience and Challenges

ABSTRACT The Cuban political regime, the only autocracy belonging to the Soviet model in the western hemisphere, shows a greater duration and stability to the rest of regional authoritarianisms. Transiting a totalitarian stage to a post‐technical model, it has combined elements such as charismatic leadership and bureaucracy, military and civil power, coercion, and propaganda. But in the last years, it faces a growing social discontent and a huge increase in migration, derived from its inability to provide goods and services, of the exhaustion of its legitimacy, everything that puts in question the survival of the regime and the elite that governs it.