Es un honor para mí tener la oportunidad de reunirme con ustedes aquí en esta hermosa ciudad de Miami, para compartir ideas en torno a los avances de la agricultura de nuestros países y exponerles mi visión sobre el futuro de ésta en el Caribe. Recuerdo que cuando aún no se hablaba de globalización o […]

“Enseñar puede cualquiera; educar, tan solo quien sea un evangelio vivo.” —Don José de la Luz y Caballero. Education is one of the most important infrastructure investments any nation can make. And, on this count, Cuba has always been among the leaders in Latin America. For example, in the half century elapsed between 1899 and […]

This is a brief analysis of some issues in the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) book La economía cubana: Reformas estructurales y desempeño en los noventa. A more comprehensive review of this book (dealing with different topics), is forthcoming in an issue of Cuban Studies to be published in 1999. […]

For many decades, premium Cuban cigars have served as the world standard against which other cigars are judged. The story is told that, immediately before President John F. Kennedy approved the embargo against Cuba in 1962, he sent an assistant to Washington tobacco shops to buy up the available supply of the hand-made Cuban cigars […]

While economic liberalization movements in Latin America have much in common, national policies often take distinctive forms. Even Cuba has found it necessary to take a number of market-oriented steps to address the economic crisis ushered in by the loss of Soviet economic support after 1989. At issue in this regard are patterns of interaction […]