A friend who worked in the Administration told me that when President Bush received the report of his Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba in 2004—a report that brought new limits on family remittances, gift parcels, and visits—the only question that he returned to his staff was whether elderly Cubans would be harmed. This […]

Notes1 Dedicated to all who continue to face restrictions of their individual liberties anywhere. An in-depth examination of the history of freedom of the press in Cuba under Batista and Castro is worthy of investigation because these two dictators have ruled this neighboring island nation for the last 54 years. In addition, this research is […]

This paper seeks to explain the typical behavior of output during the transition from central planning to market in terms of a massive but gradual shift from the state sector to the private sector. The model is illustrated for the countries of the former Soviet Union (FSU) during the 1990s—a period when transitional factors are […]

Notes1 Este trabajo parte de un enfoque interdisciplinario de la identidad de los exiliados cubanos para ofrecer una perspectiva cultural. Primero se examina qué es la identidad y el uso de la palabra “exiliado” como clasificación de los cubanos en Cuba y Estados Unidos. Luego se explica qué es una identidad cultural autocrática para observar […]