Cuba's New Constitution in Post-Castro Era

Cuba's New Constitution in Post-Castro Era

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Season 1, Episode 898 , Segment 6

Great Pacific Garbage Patch Clean-Up, ACL Injuries, Cuban Constitution

Episode: Great Pacific Garbage Patch Clean-Up, ACL Injuries, Cuban Constitution

  • Sep 12, 2018 9:00 pm
  • 31:10 mins

Guest: Ted Henken, PhD, Associate Professor of Sociology, Baruch College Cuba is one of the last standard bearers of Communism globally – and now it appears to be backing away from that. Cuban politicians and voters are debating a new constitution that recognizes the “role of the market” and “private property.” Those ideas are central to Western Capitalism, which the Castros of Cuba have long railed against.