Las relaciones Cuba-Estados Unidos han estado presente en el discurso político de los cubanos, desde mucho antes de alcanzar la independencia de España. Por las más diversas y contradictorias razones— omisión o injerencia—los cubanos han responsabilizado al poderoso vecino geográfico, con los desaciertos y errores que han cometido como gobernantes y gobernados. En buen cubano […]

Actions and neglectful policies of Cuba’s socialist government over nearly four decades will leave a legacy of environmental disruption that future governments will have to reckon with. We have argued elsewhere (Díaz-Briquets and Pérez-López, forthcoming) that the environmental disruptions that have occurred in socialist Cuba were not merely the result of the process of transformation […]

The intent is—in post-Castro Cuba—to establish bio-prospecting laboratories in the rain-forests of eastern Cuba and fund them through a combination of commercial, international agency and U.S. based federal grant funding for visiting researchers. The task of these laboratories will be to seek pharmaco­logically, medically, and agriculturally useful biochemicals among the exceptionally diverse plant, and fungal […]

Whether one agrees or disagrees with the purpose, provisions, or probable consequences of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act (the Cuban Liberty Act also popularly known as the Helms-Bur­ton Law, particularly in Cuba) is beside the point. On March 12, 1996, President Clinton signed the Cuban Liberty Act into law, having previously been approved […]