DA REVOLUÇÃO À “ABERTURA” ECONÔMICA: o crescimento e a importância da atividade turística para Cuba

Abstract

Like the other countries of the socialist bloc, Cuba had to rethink its economic regime with the end of the Soviet Union, and the hegemony of neoliberalism. Unlike China and the Soviet Union, which adopted policies of openness to the market economy that in practice meant the end of socialism in these countries, Cuba seeks, in what it calls economic update, to create a strategy to resist the phagocytic force of capitalism and to survive as socialist nation. To this end, guaranteeing resources to finance its social policy is essential. The exploitation of tourism, as an economic activity, has been the main strategy, in the last 30 years, to increase the necessary inflow of resources in the island.