Notes1 By most accounts the process of economic reform in Cuba starts in 1993. In these six years this process has evolved in various directions, not all of them consistent with each other, and economic outcomes have also evolved in various ways sometimes due to the reforms and at other times despite the reforms. An […]

Notes1 “Los latinoamericanos metían tremendas muelas sobre la deuda externa, de las posibles revoluciones venideras, de la corrupción de los presidentes respectivos, del hambre y la miseria, sin querer ver el hambre y la miseria cubanas.” —Zoé Valdés, Traficantes de Belleza, 1999, p. 16. Recientemente se han publicado cuatro estudios sobre la situación económica de […]

Notes1 When the Soviet Union was dissolved in the fall of 1991 most observers believed that the days of central planning were counted all over the world. Most of them would have been extremely surprised to hear that more than seven years later a nation organized according to Marxist economic principles and Leninist political methods […]

Two central interrelated issues concern the panel on politics: the problem of democracy, that is, its absence in Cuba; and the belief that Cuba’s present regime, its current form of government, is not institutionalized, that it is transitory (please notice the use of the term “transition” in several of the panels of this meeting). Indeed, […]