Notes1 In late September 1990, speaking at a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the creation of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDRs), President Fidel Castro announced that the country had entered a “special period in time of peace.”2 He likened the prevailing economic situation—sharply reduced levels of imports of fuel, food, […]

Among the many challenges a post-Castro Cuba will face is the environmental condition of the island after four decades of environmental neglect and mismanagement. Besides creating a new political and socioeconomic framework, Cuba’s new leaders will have to ensure that economic development does not occur at the expense of environmental and human health concerns, an […]

This paper is written as a policy paper to discuss the dynamics of public opinion in Cuba in terms of the impact of selected events on different groups of the population and the potential it provides for building a civil society in Cuba. It is a follow-up of a previous analysis published by Freedom House […]

Notes1 Immigration is one of the fundamental issues that policy makers in both the United States and Cuba will have to address early on during Cuba’s transition to democracy and a free-market economy. Recent history suggests that countries which have made successful free-market transitions have been helped along by the inflow of foreign investment, the […]