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After he officially took the reins of government, Raúl Castro tried to lessen to some extent the restrictions on free enterprise, consumption, and travel that had been in place for fifty years. In this context, scholars have framed two main types of analyses: some of them stress the multiple ways society resists the State, while others describe how the Cuban political regime is transitioning from totalitarianism to democracy. However, the fading of the symbolic dimension of the regime did not provoke the collapse of the system of norms on which the social functioning relied. Private entrepreneurs, citizens who are able to travel internationally without restriction, as well as critical artists who are inserted in the international market, can benefit from reforms as long as they respect in return the limits that have been shaped by the ruling elite. The Cuban Communist Party still denies that social divisions and conflicts exist, and is not ready to stop ruling the country through arbitrary administration of power.