I have had occasion in recent months to reformulate my own life story to myself. The last twenty-two years of my life have been taken up with my defense of the liberal democratic project and the exile imposed as punishment for that commitment. This quest began, intellectually, with my dissertation, whose subject was Hispanic American liberalism. The fact that it was the first research on the subject in the first graduating class of the first Master’s program in political science in the history of Cuba indicates just how challenging the endeavor was. Having overcome, with some effort, the censorship and the dogmatism endemic to our professors’ Leninism, my inquiry into my subject became the first text about liberalism with an explanatory — and not pejorative — intention published in Castro’s Cuba.
Liberal Realism as a Way of Life
