As I saw the portentous events of almost forty years ago unfold in Cuba — the flight of a dictator, the collapse of the state’s army, the accession of a savior prophet of the new order — I considered certain the determinant role of culture in them. For in about sixty years of independence, twice, […]

At last year’s ASCE meetings we presented a paper comparing the future of the Cuban tourism industry and its economic impact under two scenarios. We accepted the Ministry of Tourism’s figures projected through the year 2000 and formulated our own estimate of a ten-year projection through the year 2007. We chose to project ten years […]

The recent attention in the social sciences to social movement organizations as actors in the drama of social change, needs to be modified to make cultures of opposition the more inclusive topic of analysis and theorizing in comparative studies of change in political systems. The paper identifies ten attributes of cultures of opposition (CO) in […]

Además de los ya conocidos y estudiados procesos de reformas en los países de Europa Oriental, reviste gran importancia para Cuba el estudio de las transformaciones que han experimentado las economías de Latinoamérica. En este sentido, creemos que el caso mexicano constituye una experiencia digna de ser considerada. Pretendemos mediante este trabajo analizar brevemente los […]