Note Authors’ note En Cuba, desde 1905 en las circulares Nos. 11 y 19 de la Estación Experimental Agronómica de Santiago de las Vegas, en La Habana, se divulgó la idea de que “…cada cubano estableciera un pequeño jardín dedicado al cultivo de las hortalizas para el uso doméstico, sugiriéndose que con muy poco costo […]
La Agricultura en Cuba: Transformaciones, Resultados y Retos
El sector agropecuario (SA) encierra para la economía cubana una importancia significativa y estratégica. Las razones fundamentales por las cuales el SA resulta decisivo y estratégico, radican en: sector primario de la producción de alimentos con destino a la población y la rama ganadera, industria procesadora, y sustituto para la reducción de las importaciones de […]
The Role of Fake News in The Genesis of The Cuban Revolution: A Comparison of Cuba, Florida and France Around 1950
Authors’ note “In 1954, only 8 percent of French households had a refrigerator or a washing machine.” Jeremy D. Popkin, A History of Modern France, 2nd Edition. NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001, p. 255. We think of “fake news” as an answer to a question that has a more accurate response, and the answer is dispersed […]
Compañeros Que Nos “Atienden” y Europeos Que Nos “Acompañan”: Expresión Digital de la Vida Diaria y Humor Negro Bajo la Economía de la Miseria Cubana
Author’s note Before a nation can be rebuilt, its citizens need to understand how it was destroyed in the first place; how its institutions were undermined, how its language was twisted, how its people were manipulated. They need to know particular details, not general theories, and they need to hear individual stories, not generalizations about […]
Evaluating Castros’ Cuba, Franco’s Spain and Pinochet’s Chile: Economic, Social, and Political Indicators
Author’s note The performance of autocracies relative to democracies and to each other is of increasing interest to political scientists. In this article I attempt a contribution to that literature in a comparative study of three Hispanic dictatorships. They are those of Francisco Franco’s Spain, Fidel Castro’s Cuba and Augusto Pinochet’s Chile which, though not […]
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