Cubans in the diaspora are increasingly hopeful that 67 years of communist one-party rule on the island may be nearing its end, but there is also trepidation about how that change might occur. Perhaps the only thing that all Cubans can agree on is that the current situation cannot continue indefinitely. But few can predict whether change will come from within, in the form of a popular uprising, or from outside, in the form of U.S.-imposed change. And would such a change really mean the end of Communist Party control, or would it be just a negotiated reshuffling of the deck chairs, as occurred in Venezuela? There are reasons to fear that any transition away from communist rule in Cuba could be more traumatic and turbulent than Venezuela, where the opposition was never forced fully underground, and where the ruling party is less deeply entrenched than the Communist Party of Cuba.…