We Are Cuba!: How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World

Writing about Cuban culture in the Special Period, Hernández-Reguant referred to ‘Havana’s new showbiz elite’ that had emerged with the increasing marketisation of culture, while artists and artisans were among those who ‘got richer’ by being ‘plugged into transnational economic networks’.125 In the state-owned publishing sector, the sudden and severe lack of resources saw an implosion of publications.