Simposio Internacional “Desarrollo Humano, Equidad y Justicia Social"

The Cuban Revolution marks a before and after in the matter of agrarian relations, because of what it meant for the overcoming, still in progress, of the existing asymmetries in the Cuban countryside. The solution to the agrarian problem - land tenure, use and exploitation - was essential for the achievement of the country's socioeconomic development and expressed in the policies adopted in the years after the triumph. The present work aims to relate the historical dynamics and the structure of the cooperative sector in Cuba, Villa Clara and Placetas with the policies and dynamics of development, both on a national, territorial and local scale. For this, it makes use of the analysis of documents and the interview with key informants such as key sisters for the gathering of information. The study determines that a series of contradictions persist from the associative, socio-economic, educational and political aspects in their historical evolution and structure of the cooperative sector; that has lacerated its proper involvement in the Cuban development strategy. It concludes that development policies and their practical expressions at the national level were not always symmetrically linked with the evolution and development of cooperativism. In addition, the historical dynamics of cooperativism in Villa Clara and Placetas followed the same logic of the country. The non-consolidation of the territorial development strategy and its socioeconomic role, prevents the effective participation of the cooperative sector in the processes of change.