Adolfo Suarez and the Dream of a Free Cuba

In 1990, I asked Adolfo Suárez for help. At the time, I had made a political calculation that the former prime minister could be useful to Cuba's democratization and was a generous person. In Spain, his political flow had been exhausted but he had gained immense international prestige because he successfully engineered Spain's peaceful transformation in barely four years. Not long before, the Berlin Wall had been brought down and Europe's communist dictatorships collapsed, while Marxism was relegated to the ridiculous category of a dusty theoretical absurdity. On the other hand, Suárez headed the Liberal International, one of the world's great ideological federations, an organization that brought together some 80 parties of that political family, including the Cuban Liberal Union that we had founded. I was led into his office by Prof. Raúl Morodo, his strategist and a great political manager in the Liberal International. Morodo had been extremely supportive of the Cuban democrats.