Three years ago, Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez, at a meeting in New York, explained, and insisted, that what Cuba needed and was promoting in terms of foreign investments, was investors representing big capital from well-established firms. The approach was questioned and criticized by foreign experts, suggesting that the whole idea was nothing […]

La cultura acopia toda la producción sociocultural humana. Es un universo que expresa los rasgos distintivos, espirituales y materiales de una sociedad o grupo social: tradiciones, imaginarios, modos de vida, las artes, las letras, los valores, los sistemas productivos, la identidad y el patrimonio (natural, mueble, inmueble, tangible e intangible). Gracias a toda la experiencia […]

In the study of government transitions, particularly those that took place in Eastern and Central Europe following the collapse of the Soviet Union, a pivotal argument about the sequencing of reforms took the form of a “chicken or the egg” causality dilemma: What should come first, political or economic changes? Since, in most countries economic […]

Notes[ref]Dedico este trabajo a los periodistas, artistas e intelectuales que colaboraron con la revista Catálogo de Letras (1994–1999) de manera anónima, con pseudónimo o con sus nombres en Cuba. También deseo recordar el libro inspirador de Jorge A. Sanguinetty Cuba: realidad y destino que cumple 10 años de publicación. Agradezco a Ilan Ehrlich la organización […]