poor economic conditions. Unable to find jobs or housing, they must put off marriage and starting families. Others feeling the pinch include un- skilled workers, thanks in part to Havana's planned shrinkage of the construction industry. Only rural Cubans-beneficiaries of land re-forms and tax breaks-seem to remain loyal to their leader.
It is premature to declare "a crisis of socialism in Cuba," says Fer- nandez. But the Freedom Flotilla carried storm warnings for Castro.
"The Armed...