Notes1 La restauración de la Constitución de 1940 como la ley principal de la República de Cuba ha sido un tema cuya vigencia ha tenido varios ciclos desde su derogación de facto por el golpe de estado del 10 de marzo de 1952. Durante los siete años de conflicto entre las diversas instancias políticas, el […]

When Dr. Ramón Grau San Martin returned to the Cuban presidency in 1944, he seemed to be fulfilling the dreams of a generation of Cuban nationalists who first broke into politics as the student revolutionaries of 1933. Grau, the archrival of military powerbroker and president General Fulgencio Batista, represented the aspirations of those who clamored […]

Notes1 Since the early 1990s, Cuba has suffered debilitating blows that resulted from the demise of the Soviet Union and the disappearance of the economic and financial system in which the island was inserted (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, or CMEA). The termination of traditional trade partnerships with the Soviet Bloc and the loss of […]

“No hay dinero que pague una buena atención médica” or “La medicina es un sacerdocio.” These colloquial phrases used in Cuba many years ago refer to medical services as an almost divine vocation. Things are different now in most highly industrialized societies. Why has reality changed so dramatically? It seems that when monetary compensation is […]

Notes1 It is not farfetched to believe that, sooner or later, Cuban agriculture will be centered on a free enterprise system.2 That transition, which many believe has already started with the breakup of the state monopoly on land and the creation of cooperatives in 1993 and of free agricultural markets in 1994, will rest on […]