In Cuba’s history, ecology, and economics, interaction of water with vegetation is important and complex, e.g., “A la cintura cruzamos el río y recruzamos por él—bayás altos a la orilla…” (José Martí in Diario de Campaña de Cabo Haitiano a Dos Ríos, entry of April 14, 1895, cited in Anonymous, 2004); and “Combate en el […]

From 1959 onward, the Cuban revolutionary government confiscated assets such as homes, businesses, farms, factories, and personal property belonging to U.S. taxpayers and others.1 This was the largest seizure of U.S. property in history, greater than the value of American assets taken by all other Communist governments combined.2 Although the Castro regime promised compensation for […]

Notes1 Not since the early 1900s has democratic promotion been a more prominent feature of American foreign policy. As President Bush has proclaimed, “the world has an interest in the spread of democratic values.” One key strategy for promoting democracy is the strengthening of civil society. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, virtually every […]

In his speech of July 26, 2005, Fidel Castro claimed that the Cuban economy had grown 7.3 percent during the first semester of the year. Upon hearing this, my first reaction was amazement about how rapidly national account statistics are being produced in Cuba. How the country produces its national account statistics has always been […]