Mexico’s Informador reports on the increased expression of violence in the island.  Even though violence is minor in Cuba compared to other Latin American countries, the island is not exempt from that type of expression, which has increased recently and acknowledged by state media, asserts the daily.

The greater question for Raul Castro’s government lies when social violence spirals out of control and becomes political in nature resulting in a destabilizing variable.

[H/T: La Nueva Cuba]

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The World Bank issued in June its Country Data Report for Cuba covering the years 1996 to 2007 under its Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project.

The project attempts to measure governance by synthesizing the views and reports of diverse sources, including Economist Intelligence Unit, Latinobarometro, Afrobarometer, World Economic Forum, Freedom House, Gallup World Poll, Bertelsmann Transformation Index, Institutional Profile Database by French Government Agencies, OECD Development Center African Economic Outlook, Global Integrity Index, Political and Economic Risk Consultancy in Asia, and Reporters without Borders, among others.

Governance is defined by the WGI authors as the traditions and institutions by which authority in a country is exercised. This includes the process by which governments are selected, monitored and replaced; the capacity of the government to effectively formulate and implement sound policies; and the respect of citizens and the state for the institutions that govern economic and social interactions among them.

In addition, the project reports aggregate and individual governance indicators for 212 countries and territories over the period 1996–2007, for six dimensions of governance, which include: Voice and Accountability; Political Stability and Absence of Violence; Government Effectiveness; Regulatory Quality; Rule of Law; and Control of Corruption.

Each page of the report shows the country’s percentile rank on one of the six governance indicators. Percentile ranks indicate the percentage of countries worldwide that rate below the selected country. Higher values thus indicate better governance ratings. The graph also reports the margins of error displayed in the line charts by dashed lines, and corresponding to a 90% confidence interval. This means that there is a 90 percent probability that governance is within the indicated range.

Click here to read the report (pdf).

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