The position of Cuba in the world changed rapidly in the post-Cold War period. The demise of the Soviet Union and the end of its annual $5 billion subsidies caused grave economic problems and led to the economic crisis of 1989. The Cuban regime adjusted to the changed balance of power in the world by […]

Notes1 During 2000, the Center for the Study of a National Option (CEON), a research and analysis institute affiliated with the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Directorate in Miami, carried out a survey among civil society and opposition groups inside Cuba. Prodemocracy leaders in different parts of the country gathered focus groups to answer an in-depth questionnaire […]

The rental of rooms in private Cuban homes was not included among the original 1993 list of allowed selfemployed occupations because such activity was already legal at the time under a previous 1988 law (General Housing Law No. 65, article 74). That law allowed Cubans to freely rent up to two rooms in their own […]

I am honored to have been invited to participate in the panel discussion of the issues raised by Felipe Pazos ten years ago in his seminal paper on economic problems during Cuba’s free-market transition.1 The topic assigned to me is foreign investment. Dr. Pazos wrote as follows with respect to foreign investment in a transition-period […]