Cuba, federal perspective in the political debate: federal political parties (1898-1902)

Abstract

In decline or revitalization, as an obstacle or guarantor of democracy; political parties continue to be, more than a century after their birth, essential in civilized political life. For Cuban literature this subject is insufficiently treated, particularly through the auxiliary use of the theoretical instruments of political science and the sociology of political parties. The article analyzes, from a historical perspective, the federal expressions of the political groupings created in Cuba during the first North American occupation (1898-1902); in an environment in which the epistemological borders become imperceptible and the conjunction of Historical Science, Sociology and Political Science allows an analysis with a tendency to totality. The historical-logical, inductive-deductive and analytical-synthetic methods were used. 125 years ago, the tradition of struggles against Spanish absolutism on the Island and the presence of the United States led to the predominance of decentralizing tendencies in the partisan programs of the time, although the federal regime was not consummated on the Island.