The Maleconazo and the reforms of the 1990s

Abstract

The 1959 revolution brought with it a whole set of transformations that sought to position the interests of the nascent Revolutionary Government within the public agenda, some of these first changes were: the dissolution of the Congress, the creation of the National Revolutionary Police, the signing of the 1959 Agrarian Law, the creation of the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry and other changes that materialized all the commitments that during the revolutionary process had brought about not only commitments with the people, but also great expectations of improvement. A little less than 40 years later, the first and one of the largest demonstrations of the Cuban society against the young Castro government took place.