Dr. Francisco Dominguez is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies, Middlesex University. He has recently edited Mercosur: Between Integration and Democracy (2003); ‘Violence, the Left and the Creation of Un Nuevo Chile’, in W. Fowler and P. Lambert (eds.) Political Violence and Identity in Latin America (2008), ‘The rise of the private sector in Cuba’ in A. I. Gray and ... Read moreA.Kapcia (eds.) The Changing Dynamic of Cuban Civil Society (2008), and ‘The Latin Americanization of the politics of emancipation’ in Reclaiming Latin America: Experiments in Radical Social Democracy (2009) Dr. Geraldine Lievesley is Senior Lecturer, and teaches Latin American and Cuban Politics at Manchester Metropolitan University. Amongst her recent publications are: Reclaiming Latin America: Experiments in Radical Social Democracy (2009, with Steve Ludlam), The Cuban Revolution. Past, Present and Future Perspectives (2004), and In the Hands of Women. Dr Steve Ludlam is Senior Lecturer, and teaches Cuban and Latin American politics at the University of Sheffield. His recent publications include ‘Cuba at 50 - what about the workers?’ Bulletin of Latin American Research (2009); Reclaiming Latin America: Experiments in Radical Social Democracy (2009, with Geraldine Lievesley), Labour, the State, Social Movements and the Challenge of Neo-liberal Globalisation (2007, with Andrew Gamble, Andrew J. Taylor, and Stephen Wood). Show Less