This paper is written as a policy paper to discuss the dynamics of public opinion in Cuba in terms of the impact of selected events on different groups of the population and the potential it provides for building a civil society in Cuba. It is a follow-up of a previous analysis published by Freedom House […]

Notes1 Immigration is one of the fundamental issues that policy makers in both the United States and Cuba will have to address early on during Cuba’s transition to democracy and a free-market economy. Recent history suggests that countries which have made successful free-market transitions have been helped along by the inflow of foreign investment, the […]

Este trabajo quiere examinar las similitudes y diferencias entre diferentes conflictos que lograron culminar en firmas de paz o procesos electorales en el área centroamericana. Ello ofrece la base para escoger el caso guatemalteco como aquél que teniendo aspectos comunes con los demás conflictos en el área tales como el nicaragüense y el salvadoreño, se […]

Notes1 Habana Vieja was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1982. It is, in a sense, a living museum, its visible landscape almost identical to accounts given in travel guides and journals published over the last hundred and fifty years. As a result, the Cuban government has injected money and resources to preserve […]

Notes1 When assessing Cuba’s ability to overcome the socioeconomic crisis which resulted from the disintegration of the USSR and the Eastern European communist bloc, the Cuban tourism industry is of vital importance for two reasons. Firstly, the progressively critical condition and poor yields of Cuba’s traditional main economic sector, the sugar industry, with receipts of […]