“Cuba: The Accidental Revolution” (2006) is a documentary that analyses the before and after of Cuba dealing with an economic crisis. The economic crisis began with the collapse of the Soviet Union, and soon afterwards Cuba lost a lot of income. The Soviet Union was the main buyer of Cuba's sugar plantation for over thirty years and for december of 1991 to have the demise of the Soviet Union meant that Cuba would be affected. Thus, Castro's only solution for the drastic changes that were occurring in Cuba was to implement the special period. In the special period, “A new regiment of rationing is introduced that failed to supply food for more than two weeks, medicine shortage (closed clinics and pharmacies) and from 1988 to 1990, there were