Notes1 Over the last two decades, the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) has become an influential actor in the Cuban economy. Since the initiation of the Special Period in the early 1990s, key corporations and economic industries have come under the management of the FAR in what can be seen as an evolving “military entrepreneurship” […]

The Cuban Embargo has had a tremendous effect on the way in which Cuba is understood in the global legal order. The understanding has vitally affected the way in which Cuba is situated for study both within and outside the Island. This “Embargo mentality” has spawned an ideology of presumptive separation that, colored either from […]

Tough times require tough decisions. If Cuba’s healthcare system and biotechnology are to survive over the longer term, Cuba must face its demons and take steps to implement systemic changes to maintain it. The system is beginning to experience visible fissures that, if not addressed, may jeopardize its ability to honor the Cuban constitutional guarantee […]

The decision by the United States to use its naval station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, as a detention center for alleged terrorists was based largely on a feature of the site that has become known as the legal “black hole.”1 This refers to the fact that Guantánamo Bay is part of Cuba’s sovereign territory but […]