political policies

• treatment of batistas supporters
• treatment of opposition
• no elections until 1970s
• creation of the communist party of cuba
• mass organisation and unions
• committee for the defence of the revolution
• emigration and exile
• 1976 constitution and elections
• rectification campaign 1986-1987
• focus on dynamic of corruption and those opposed to reforms
• the Ochoa affair
• Aldana and the purge of 1992
• revision of constitution in 1992