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MOST LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES TODAY ARE RULED BY AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES IN WHICH A DOMINANT MILITARY IS COMMITTED TO THE "DEPOLITIZATION OF POLITICS" AND IN WHICH THE MASSES EXERT LITTLE POLITICAL INFLUENCE BEYOND THE LOCAL LEVEL. THE CHALLENGE TO SUCH AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES NOW COMES LESS FROM OLD-LINE MARXIST PARTIES THAN FROM RADICAL NATIONALISTS PLEDGED TO REVOLUTIONARY CHANGES.

Without question, Cuba's most successful 'export' from the very beginning of the Castro period has not been revolution, but the physical removal of its domestic enemies. For whatever reason individual Cubans came to reject the new order, the decision to part physically from their homeland was made by enough people to develop into what is probably the greatest mass migration in the history of the Western Hemisphere. Latest estimates provided by the Department of State indicate that approximately 560,000 persons have left Cuba since 1959 to settle in other countries—all but 50,000 in the continental United States or Puerto Rico