The Cuban Never-Never Land in Juan Carlos Tabio's film Lista de espera / Waiting List (2000)

Juan Carlos Tabio's film Lista de espera (2000) is a retrospect of the mixed sentiments of the Cubans about their experience after the collapse of the so-called 'real socialism' in Eastern Europe. The need to survive without the heavy subsidies from its former allies has plunged Cuba...

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Autor: Hillman, Anna
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:54836
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/54836
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Socialisme autocràtic
Post-comunisme
Carnavals de transicions
Neo-liberalisme
Globalització
Socialismo autocrático
Post-Comunismo
Carnavales de transiciones
Neo-liberalismo
Globalización
Autocratic socialism
Post-Communism
Carnivals of transitions
Neo-liberalism
Globalisation
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Sumario:Juan Carlos Tabio's film Lista de espera (2000) is a retrospect of the mixed sentiments of the Cubans about their experience after the collapse of the so-called 'real socialism' in Eastern Europe. The need to survive without the heavy subsidies from its former allies has plunged Cuba on the road to economic change, thus restructuring the shape of its socialist society. As a result of a prolonged transition to limited market reforms and alternated periods of liberalisation and tightening of the State control Cuba was caught up in limbo, suspended in what Lydia Chávez calls 'Never-Never land' - in flux of neither pure socialism, nor capitalism. I argue that, paradoxically, Lista is at once an emphatic criticism of bureaucratic socialism anda pleading to its compatriots to retain the positive aspects of the Cuban socialist 'collective dream'. The film demonstrates that despite all predictions socialist ideas are not quite 'dead' yet. I posit that Lista is in a way a prophetic film, foretelling Latin America's current disillusionment with neo-liberalism and its countries' recent return to more populist social policies. I claim that these political 'mood swings' are comparable to certain events in Russia and Eastern Europe and were provoked by discontent with the effects of globalisation.