Cuba’s global relations are on the upswing. In the two years since Raúl Castro took power in July 2006, he has ushered in subtle but important changes in Cuba’s foreign policy while benefiting from a widely-shared desire on the part of many foreign countries to reach out to Cuba during its moment of transition away […]

After years of neglect, the Cuban government timidly started to promote international tourism in the mid- 1970s. By the mid-1980s, in the midst of an external sector crisis, the Cuban government embarked in a counter-reform, idealistic economic development program named the “Rectification of Errors and Negative Tendencies” (Mesa-Lago 2000). Along with the abolishment of free […]

Como en ocasiones anteriores tengo el honor de participar con el presente trabajo en la XVIII Conferencia Anual de la Asociación para el Estudio de la Economía Cubana. Ante todo deseo enviar un afectuoso saludo a todos los colegas participantes y desearles muchos éxitos en este importante encuentro tan significativo para el futuro de nuestro […]

Notes1 Historians in general show a natural propensity to overlook the most basic function of government: to protect and enhance the interests of the public whose views it has been called to represent. They do so by ascribing a moral component to governmental action that is often too broad, too impractical and indeed much incompatible […]