University of Florida Levin College of Law UF Law Scholarship Repository UF Law Faculty Publications Faculty Scholarship 1-2003 Building Bridges V—Cubans Without Borders: Mujeres Unidas Por Su Historia Berta E. Hernández-Truyol University of Florida Levin College of Law,
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[email protected]. FLORIDA LAWREVIEW [Vol. 55 other. One is the post-revolutionary society created in the actual physical island, a mere ninety miles from the southernmost tip ofthe United States. This Cuba-Castro's Cuba-has existed for the last forty-two years under a socialist, communist regime imposed by the revolution, whose objectives have been to develop a social and an economic rights agenda and reject capitalism, imperialism, and colonialism.2 In this society, much as in other socialist/communist societies, individual freedoms are sacrificed for the good of, and subordinated to, the collective interests. It is the government's business to provide healthcare, education, welfare, food, and work for its citizens, even if it is at the expense of the personal freedom to choose a field of work or education.