Este trabajo quiere examinar las similitudes y diferencias entre diferentes conflictos que lograron culminar en firmas de paz o procesos electorales en el área centroamericana. Ello ofrece la base para escoger el caso guatemalteco como aquél que teniendo aspectos comunes con los demás conflictos en el área tales como el nicaragüense y el salvadoreño, se […]

Notes1 Habana Vieja was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1982. It is, in a sense, a living museum, its visible landscape almost identical to accounts given in travel guides and journals published over the last hundred and fifty years. As a result, the Cuban government has injected money and resources to preserve […]

Notes1 When assessing Cuba’s ability to overcome the socioeconomic crisis which resulted from the disintegration of the USSR and the Eastern European communist bloc, the Cuban tourism industry is of vital importance for two reasons. Firstly, the progressively critical condition and poor yields of Cuba’s traditional main economic sector, the sugar industry, with receipts of […]

As I saw the portentous events of almost forty years ago unfold in Cuba — the flight of a dictator, the collapse of the state’s army, the accession of a savior prophet of the new order — I considered certain the determinant role of culture in them. For in about sixty years of independence, twice, […]

At last year’s ASCE meetings we presented a paper comparing the future of the Cuban tourism industry and its economic impact under two scenarios. We accepted the Ministry of Tourism’s figures projected through the year 2000 and formulated our own estimate of a ten-year projection through the year 2007. We chose to project ten years […]