Author’s note El dominio de Batista sobre la vida política trajo ciertos cambios para los negros cubanos: el ex sargento era obviamente un mulato y, a pesar de su traición a la revolución de 1933,… Batista realizó— proponiéndoselo o no–varias tareas de importancia revolucionaria. —Lourdes Casal (1979 quote from Cultura Afrocubana, pp. 390–391) Fulgencio Batista […]

When in the 60s the Cuban government led by Fidel Castro nationalized all domestic and foreign companies operating on the island and eliminated private ownership of the means of production, there was a radical change in Cuban society. Since then, Cuban society has suffered the consequences of the double embargo that still exists today: the […]

Notes, Present-day Cuba finds itself yet again navigating the volatile waters of international politics. In his book The Cuban Revolution (1959–2009): Relations with Spain, the European Union, and the United States, published in 2009, J. Roy already drew attention to the fact that Cuba’s international relations are one of the most complicated, especially those with […]

Cuba is an emerging market with 11 million people, a growing demand for products and services, and a government open to foreign direct investment (FDI) from multiple countries (Economist Intelligence Unit, 2014; Feinberg, 2013; Solorza, 2016). To acquire hard currency to pay global bills and strengthen the Cuban economy, FDI in the tourism industry has […]

On December 17, 2014 (17D), Barack Obama and Raúl Castro announced in simultaneous televised speeches the beginning of a historic process toward the normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba after more than a half-century of unremitting hostility. The U.S. and Cuban presidents unveiled the decision to restore full diplomatic relations between their […]