The first two independent agricultural cooperatives in socialist Cuba were founded in 1997. Soon thereafter, some independent farmers joined in a new coalition named the National Alliance of Independent Farmers of Cuba (Alianza Nacional de Agricultores Independientes de Cuba, ANAIC). Since that time, these, and the related events that followed, raised a number of questions […]

Notes1 Following its collapse after the pullout of Soviet assistance at the end of the 1980s, the Cuban economy began to make a respectable recovery in the mid- 1990s. That recovery was due largely to a restructuring of the economy which allowed for foreign investment, legalized a limited amount of private economic activity including the […]

Notes1,2 “Cuba y Puerto Rico, de un pájaro las dos alas…” (Cuba and Puerto Rico, two wings of a bird…)3 Despite nearly 40 years of isolation from each other and of the numerous conflicts between the United States and Cuba, Puerto Ricans and Cubans still maintain strong bonds. These resilient bonds are in part a […]

This paper, which is based on a larger report submitted to USAID by the Project Team,1 summarizes the results of the survey of public opinion with respect to the following areas: (1) humanitarian aid; (2) availability of goods and supplies; (3) educational attainments; (4) health attainments; (5) attitude toward reforms; (6) freedom of expression; (7) […]

Cuba is undertaking a profound transformation of its traditional economic structures. This transformation is the result of several factors, some apparently leading in different directions. First, the crisis generated by Cuba’s loss of the significant Soviet subsidies in the early 1990s. Second, the measures taken by the Cuban government to meet the crisis, especially the […]