I was very pleased to be invited to participate in this session on the Internet and e-commerce in Cuba. The phenomenal growth of the Internet during the last decade has quickly come to dominate nearly all facets of communication and development in the modern world, and its importance as an instrument of economic and political […]
Orographic Influences on Vegetation and Bioprospecting Potential at the Confluence of the Bayamo, Guamá and Guisa Rivers
This paper is part of a plan to develop the Peña Prieta Institute to bio-prospect on family land between the Bayamo and the Guamá Rivers in the rain forests of the Sierra Maestra of old Oriente Province. These are the lands originally held by seven times wounded Mambí Colonel Don Benjamín Ramírez. On this land […]
Circumventing the Embargo: The Strategic Context of Spain’s Economic Relations with Cuba
Notes1 Under General Francisco Franco, Spain like other countries of Western Europe, declined to participate in the U.S.-inspired October 1960 embargo of Cuba. Indeed, the Spanish caudillo kept Iberian Airlines, the state run flagship carrier, flying as the only direct link between Cuba and Western Europe. From the late Franco era to the present, Spain’s […]
Comments by Alfred G. Cuzán on “Inside Civil Society: An Empirical Study in Cuba of Opinions Among Members of Independent Groups on Problems and Prospects for Democratization,” by the Center for the Study of a National Option (CEON)
This is an important paper. Drawing on data obtained through focus group research undertaken inside Cuba, the authors attempt to shed light on the present status or “state of health,” so to speak, of both the Castro regime and its civic opposition. They consider what can be done, from within and without, peacefully to bring […]
A Test of Culture of Opposition’s Power Grid
The concept of a culture of opposition (CO) under repressive political systems, most fully developed by Scott (1990), alerts us to the importance of culture, particularly language, other collective symbols, and disguised social norms and values used by persecuted people to adapt to undesirable political situations, to facilitate the occurrence of protests and other forms […]
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