Notes1 “Why aren’t you in jail?” —Caroline Overington, journalist. “This is the question everybody—all my friends, my family—is asking. I don’t know the answer, but I know another question. Why are other people in jail?” —Oswaldo Payá, Cuban human rights activist.2 This paper seeks to answer Payá’s question about the nature of political repression in […]

In 1989, following the fall of the Berlin wall, the United States Congress authorized and funded the creation of Enterprise Funds aimed at supporting private sector development in two formerly communist nations of Eastern Europe. The Enterprise Funds were organized as private, not-for-profit corporations run by independent non-governmental boards of businessmen and women who managed […]

Against a background of high current and foreseeable food import prices, agriculture shows an unsatisfactory performance, with lower production of provision crops, vegetables, beans, citrus fruits, corn and other products. This sector is marked by subjective management deficiencies [and] a decline in labor productivity and also in the average hours worked. While not forgetting the […]

Notes1 President Fidel Castro, the Cuban octogenarian leader who has governed the country for the past 48 years, became seriously ill in July of 2006. He was provisionally substituted by his official successor, his 76-year-old brother General Raúl Castro, the Armed Forces Minister. A permanent power transfer will take place if Fidel dies. Such leadership […]

Notes1 This report provides (1) an overview of Cuba’s purchases of U.S. agricultural, fish, and forestry products since 2000; (2) an analysis of the effects that U.S. government restrictions on export financing terms and travel to Cuba by U.S. citizens have on those Cuban purchases; and (3) estimates of likely U.S. agricultural sales if export […]