El viejo sistema se ha desintegrado, el nuevo aún no está construido y nuestra vida colectiva esta marcada por una incertidumbre subconsciente acerca de que tipo de sistema queremos, como construirlo y si tenemos los conocimientos para construirlo en primer lugar. (Vaclav Havel, New York Review of Books, 7 de marzo de 1991.) En el […]

Notes1 A reader of debates taking place in the U.S. Congress might justly conclude that U.S. sanctions have had a significant effect on the performance of the Cuban economy. Opponents of sanctions argue that sanctions have impoverished the island and therefore caused innocent Cubans to suffer. Supporters of sanctions argue that sanctions have kept valuable […]

Notes1 The question of remittances from persons of Cuban descent living outside of Cuba to their relatives on the Island is one of the most contentious in the Cuban- American community. Even if the economic and political impact on Cuba of remittances were not significant—and I believe they are—the important role they play in the […]

El gobierno cubano dio muestras de su capacidad negociadora internacional en el Mundo de la Guerra Fría superando a sus socios del Campo Socialista en logro de favores de la Unión Soviética; manteniendo, a la vez, un reconocimiento como actor independiente de los países llamados no alineados. El fin del orden internacional bipolar puso a […]

The evanescence of communism in Central and Eastern Europe in 1989-91 is considered the end of the twentieth century, just as World War I, which led to the Russian Revolution in 1917, is presented as its beginning. During the first thirty years of that period, from the start of World War I to the end […]