Notes[ref]These comments were prepared for delivery in Miami, Florida at the Conference on The Future For Investment and Economic Development in Cuba, held on February 29 and March 1, 1996 at the Radisson Hotel Conference Center.[/ref] There is a framework under Cuban law which establishes (i) property rights for foreign investors, and (ii) legal guaranties […]

The economic embargo has been the centerpiece of U.S. policy and strategy toward Cuba, but information and communications issues and measures have not been ignored. For example, after the embargo began, AT&T was allowed to maintain pre-embargo links through their existing undersea cable to Cuba. The power of information is also recognized in the Radio Broadcasting […]

The last two decades have seen the emergence of a rich literature on the military in socialist Cuba. The interest in studying the island’s military institutions and functions was piqued in the 1970s by the overseas involvement of the Cuban military: overt intervention of Cuban forces in African wars; veiled involvement in Middle Eastern and […]

In addressing the question of what is the optimal size of the defense sector in a post-Castro Cuba, we must first establish some criteria by which we can judge different alternatives. In this paper, the criteria that I use is one where the level of the military sector is determined by the preferences of the […]