CUBA, Y AHORA LA LIBERTAD

Is a free Cuba possible without repeating the mistakes of the past? Can a country change without dismantling the system that has led it to ruin? Is an agreed-upon transition enough, or is a real break necessary? What role should the economy play in that change? Is Cuban society prepared to take it on? In *Cuba, and Now Freedom*, Cuban writer Zoé Valdés, one of the strongest voices in exile, offers an uncompromising answer: it is not enough to reform the existing system or manage its decline. What is at stake is something deeper ... the recovery of the individual and their capacity to decide. Drawing on her experience and decades of critical observation, the author examines the failure of the Castro model, the country...s economic and moral decline, and the false expectations of change that have fueled resignation for years. ...Without freedom, there will be no country. Without freedom, reconstruction will not be possible.... This book is neither a chronicle nor a settling of scores; it is a statement of position. It argues for the need for fundamental change: to restore private property, truly open up the economy, and reinstate individual rights as the foundation of any possible future. ...The state presented itself as the guarantor of order, but its essence is coercion: it concentrates power, confiscates wealth, and nullifies free cooperation amo g individuals....