“We present to the reader” the author states “an overview of the process that shaped and defined the age-old endeavor of the Cuban people aimed at forging a worthy fate for itself.  This dedicated quest logically appeared under various guises and degrees of intensity, according to the prevailing historical circumstances, shaped by a previous and enormous amount of work and coherent with continental, Latin American and word phenomena and events.  In this regard, Cuba’s specific history cannot be conceived but inextricably inserted and related to the more general context.  However since this is a summary, devoting too much space to an in-depth analysis of that process was virtually impossible…”