Cuba and North Korea have many similarities in their political systems and foreign relations with the United States. However, the two countries have chosen diverging paths in recent years. The United States and Cuba moved to end five decades of hostility and agreed to revive diplomatic relations in December 2014. And, on April 11, 2015, […]

Notes[ref]An earlier version was presented at the conference “Reforming Communism: Cuba in Comparative Perspective,” Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh, November 6–8, 2014.[/ref] Since Raúl Castro assumed Cuba’s top leadership position — on a temporary basis in 2006 and permanently in 2008 — Cuba has experienced numerous economic policy changes aimed at ending […]

Notes[ref]Editor’s Note: This essay was awarded First Prize in the 2015 ASCE Student Competition for graduate students.[/ref] Art biennials are major art exhibitions that happen every two years. They inform a global art community of nomadic professionals and objects moving from city to city, reassembling in variable narratives parallel to market trends. In 1980 the […]

Notes[ref]This paper is a revised and updated version of testimony the author presented to the U.S. International Trade Commission in June 2015.[/ref] This paper assesses the effects of the U.S. trade restrictions on our telecommunication exports to Cuba. Since there is a great deal of uncertainty about the Cuban plans and policies and U.S. policy […]

Notse[ref]I am grateful to Luis Locay and Jorge Pérez-López for their comments on earlier drafts of this paper.[/ref] Cuba, along with many other countries, is in the midst of a transcendental demographic transformation. Concerns regarding high fertility and population growth rates (the “population explosion”) are giving way to alarm about population aging, mostly due to […]