RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Cuba’s current economic reforms are limited and moving forward slowly, but they are moving. As Rolando Anillo said about the reforms in his presentation, “sin prisa pero sin pausa.” The range of the topics covered by the reforms is quite extensive. They include agriculture, small businesses, foreign investment, tax policy, reducing government […]

The book, Cubans: An Epic Journey is a historical overview of the last six decades of the relationship between the people and government of Cuba, and the people and government of the United States, and events that shaped the history of the two countries. It portrays the Cubans’ journey into exile, dramatizing their struggle for […]

In 2002, the United States began using the Guantanamo Bay naval station as a detention center for prisoners captured in its fight against terrorism. Since then, there have been allegations of human rights violations at the site, notably that prisoners were being tortured during interrogations and that they have been detained for years without being […]

Notes1 “Perhaps [the Americans, like many Germans] believed—rightly or wrongly—that physical reconstruction was something that would follow from, rather than something that would itself help create, economic recovery. Thus in a letter to the author on May 25, 1989, Charles Kindleberger, who helped formulate the Marshall Plan, said that his ‘interest 43 years ago was […]

LA ISLA DE LOS DESCONECTADOS Cuba es el país del hemisferio occidental con menor conectividad a la web. La cifra de quienes acceden a Internet apenas llega a 1,6 millones en una población de más de 11 millones de habitantes. Sin embargo, ni siquiera ese número representa el verdadero caudal de internautas, pues dentro de […]