Author’s note Se ha teorizado poco sobre la vida diaria cubana y la economía política según se relata en internet. Los estudios del Holocausto ofrecen perspectivas que ayudan a entender los efectos de la economía de la miseria en la vida diaria de las personas que viven bajo restricciones semejantes al confinamiento, aunque este no […]

This article examines the use and abuse of the term “revolution” in Cuba and in Cuban studies. The official narrative in Cuba blurs the contours of La Revolución, both across time (it continues to this day) and across actors and institutions (revolution = government = nation). Curiously, the term revolution is generally not the object […]

Author’s note In 1999, the World Health Organization (WHO) developed a measure to assess the ability of a National Health System (NHS) to translate  expenditures into health outcomes called the “index of performance or efficiency on the level of health” (IELH). Health expenses per capita, disability-adjusted life expectancy (DALE), effectiveness of the NHS, and education […]

Uno de los grandes mitos en los cuales el gobierno cubano ha basado su legitimidad ha sido, desde que Fidel Castro llegara al poder en 1959, la educación. Los bajos índices de alfabetización, no solo de Cuba sino de toda Latinoamérica, fueron sustituidos por campañas de alfabetización a un alto por ciento de la población. […]

Note In this text, I will start out from two basic points. First, the role that Vaclav Havel’s legacy has played in the formation of foreign policies of Czechoslovakia (and later the Czech Republic) after the Velvet Revolution and how it has influenced the formation of current Czech position in the on-going debate taking place […]