Silence As a Scream: Social Class Inequalities in the Era of Raúl Castro

Abstract

In a country in permanent crisis, the reforms announced by Raúl Castro in 2007, a year before he became president of Cuba (2008-2018), were the perfect alibi for economic adjustments that, in their implementation,
have functioned as detonators of social inequalities. This article shows the results of a doctoral research on the configuration of social class inequalities in contemporary Cuba. Taking as a pretext the study of the dynamics that take place in the Historic Center of Havana, we explore how differential access to reforms translates into a position, also differential, in terms of social classes.