This paper compares the post-Cold War experiences of women in Cuba and Vietnam. The regimes in both of these countries suffered gravely from the col­lapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The disappear­ance of the Soviet bloc and the subsequent economic slowdown forced the Cuban and Vietnamese leader­ship to sort quickly through various policies that […]

This paper presents findings of a case study of a sug­arcane-farming cooperative (cooperativa de producción agropecuaria, CPA) located in the province of Ha­vana, Cuba. Although the internal dynamics of spe­cific Cuban cooperative farms have been examined by Cuban researchers, the results of their studies are not readily available in the United States. [ref]An exception is […]

Como un ejercicio mental el lector debe imaginar a alguien con trastornos de la personalidad, tratando de que no se mueva una pelota que lo obsesiona, a la vez que quiere mantenerla escondida. Para ello la mete en una caja, pero no la ajusta y decide en períodos cortos de tiempo cambiarla de lugar. A […]

Cuba was the first country to produce cement in Latin America, on July 7, 1895, two years before Brazil. The Cuban cement industry now bears the scars of its politics. The nation’s cement makers have to use some of the Western world’s most outdated equipment, and are producing at low levels of capacity utilization only […]

Nos proponemos en este trabajo explorar los siguientes aspectos: 1) los niveles de educación y la participación en el mercado laboral de la mujer cubana en los Estados Unidos; 2) los campos en que la mujer en el exilio se ha destacado y aquellos en que su presencia es menos notable y por qué; y […]