I have been involved in the computer industry in the United States for more than 12 years, ten of which have been as president of a company that has undergone three major metamorphic changes, from hardware distribution to networking and communications support, to software and Internet development. Recently, I began to think about how a […]

Are leaders of revolutions more ideological than their successors? Does this ideological view make revolutionary leaders less open to changes not of their own making? In China, Mao Zedong created and maintained an ideology for the nation based on his own political views and led a massive upheaval of Chinese society based on ideology. Deng […]

Estimados compatriotas y amigos: Ante todo quiero expresarles mi agradecimiento por la invitacin a participar en la Reunión Anual de la Asociación para el Estdio de la Economía Cubana, y poder contribuir con mi modesto aporte al desarrollo de los debates. En el período transcurrido desde la celebración de la anterior reunión en agosto del […]

The purpose of this paper is to present the point of view of the National Association of Sugar Mill Owners of Cuba (Asociación Nacional de Hacendados de Cuba, ANDHAC), for the reconstruction of the sugar industry in a free and democratic Cuba. Members of the Association have written extensively about this matter in conferences and […]

In May 1997, the Cuban government officially announced the creation of the Central Bank of Cuba, as part of a package of financial sector reforms. As pointed out in a recent study by ECLA, the Central Bank of Cuba inherited from the former National Bank of Cuba the exclusive responsibility for issuing money as well […]