Early in 1995, Senator Helms, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced in the Senate, along with a bipartisan coalition of more than twenty co-sponsors, the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (Libertad) Act of 1995. Dan Burton, Chairman of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee of the House’s International Relations Committee, along with an even broader […]

Law-Decrees 101 and 102 of the Republic of Cuba provide retirement, disability, and survivor pensions for the personnel of the Ministry of the Armed Forces (MINFAR) and the Ministry of Interior (MININT) of the Republic of Cuba. These two laws effective February 24, 1988 provide better pension benefits than those provided under Law 24 on […]

The transformation of a centrally planned economy (CPE) into a market economy provides an excellent example of hysteresis between the trajectories corresponding to the transformation of each economic system into the other. The first process involves a transformation of a low-complexity system to one of much higher complexity. Inversely, upon establishing a centrally planned economy […]

There is an unspoken assumption in much of the popular media coverage as well as academic treatment of Cuba that the Castro regime’s longevity is tantamount to legitimacy, under the further assumption that his hold on power indicates a significant reservoir of majority support. This support is taken to stem from the social welfare gains […]