My presentation intends to share with you some thoughts on Cuba’s transition process, viewed as the sequence of events that will unfold in the island and abroad, once Fidel Castro ceases to control Cuba’s life. Hopefully, my comments will encourage Cuba’s stakeholders to pay greater attention to micro social issues and challenges, perhaps not as […]

Tourism has come to occupy, relatively suddenly, a central place in the economies of Caribbean nations previously reserved only for sugar and tobacco, and to a lesser extent, for coffee. It is now the primary source of foreign currency at each of the 30 or so Caribbean destinations, excepting the case of Cuba, where until […]

The level of education and health services in Cuba has been for years a reason of pride for its government. Even prestigious personalities not precisely friends of the Cuban regime have widely praised the island’s achievements in these fields. The allegedly first world level of Cuba in education and health is one of the cornerstones […]

OVERVIEW It is with great satisfaction that we note that about 20 percent of the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba 2004 Report to the President1 is concerned with environmental issues, in particular environmental degradation and how the United States, as well as the international community, could assist a post-transition Cuban government in addressing […]

Notes1 Since the fall of the Soviet Union, we have witnessed a rapid transition from communist governments to more democratic forms of government in Central and Eastern Europe. In most of these situations, the changes and pre-transition analyses have focused on the areas of political, economic, and legal transformation and have paid very little attention […]