Cuba is undergoing a process of social policy retrenchment in which the state is reducing its responsibility for providing social welfare and shifting its costs onto families—and, within families, disproportionately onto women—and, more recently, onto the market.
En Cuba se experimenta un proceso de ajuste de la política social, en el que el Estado reduce su responsabilidad en la provisión del bienestar y traslada su costo a las familias —y dentro de ellas, a las mujeres— y, más recientemente, al mercado.
The government is using the transfer of state-owned assets announced under the 176 measures to consolidate the economic power of government officials and “trusted” entrepreneurs.