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- 1 2 3 (in Spanish) Article about the group on encaribe.org [usurped]
- ↑ Charles Rutheiser (2000). "Capitalizing on Havana: The Return of the Repressed in a Late Socialist City". In Gary Bridge; Sophie Watson (eds.). A Companion to the City. Blackwell. ISBN 9781782688150.
- ↑ Miren Uriarte (2002), Cuba, Social Policy at a Crossroads: Maintaining Priorities, Transforming Practice (PDF), Boston: Oxfam America
- ↑ Armando Chaguaceda (2011). "The Promise Besieged: Participation and Autonomy in Cuba". NACLA Report on the Americas. 44 (4: Cuba). North American Congress on Latin America.
- ↑ Isabelle Anguelovski (2014). Neighborhood as Refuge: Community Reconstruction, Place Remaking, and Environmental Justice in the City. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-52569-5.
