El trabajo que presentamos forma parte de un estudio mayor que tenía como objetivos primarios las estimaciones de los turistas norteamericanos que Cuba podría recibir y el análisis de los impactos adversos que le podría causar al Caribe la eliminación de las restricciones de los viajes estadounidenses a Cuba. En esta ponencia solamente trataremos el […]

Notes1 The Cuban economy is experiencing severe difficulties of a longstanding nature characterized by falling consumption, low labor productivity, insufficient investment and vulnerability to external shocks. Critically the government also suffers from a deep fiscal imbalance that impedes sustained growth and maintaining social programs for the population. To address some of these concerns but without […]

The Cuban Communist Party (CCP) considers the United States to be its main adversary. As such, the United States is Cuba’s primary target for its Sovietstyle active measures, a term which refers to a form of political warfare that was originated by the government of the former Soviet Union consisting of influence operations including white, […]

Since the early 1990s, Cuba’s development strategy has given place of pride to the tourism sector. After neglecting the tourism industry for three decades, Cuba has more recently built a massive tourism infrastructure, capable of accommodating a very large flow of tourists. Cuban “sun and sand” tourism tends to be highly seasonal so that tourism […]

By 2010, it had become clear to most significant actors within and outside of Cuba, that the current system of state organization, and in particular the economic model at the heart of half a century of a particular form of implementation of Revolutionary ideology, was not working. “Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has revealed for […]