Cuban Internationalism, Che Guevara, and the Survival of Cuba's Socialist Regime

Abstract

Two of the most important factors that have contributed to the survival of Cuba's socialist regime are its commitment to its socialist ideals and its policies of internationalism. Cuba's socialist regime has provided substantial support for national liberation struggles against imperialism in every region of the world, humanitarian assistance to people in at least 90 countries, and solidarity with progressive governments and a wide array of progressive international movements and organizations around the globe. Cuba's socialist regime, like Che Guevara's ideas and example of socialist internationalism, will survive if the regime continues to support socialist revolutions and to struggle against imperialism. Moreover, Cuba's revolutionary example and its internationalist support for the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela will be a fundamental factor in determining the outcome of the current trends toward the radical left in Latin American politics.