On February 3, 2013, the people of Cuba traversed to their local polling stations to vote in the country’s parliamentary election.1 A total of 7,877,906 voters, or 91.27%, of Cuba’s eligible 8,631,836 voters took to the polls.2 The Asemblea Nacional del Poder Popular (National Assembly of the People’s Power, hereinafter “National Assembly”), comprised of 612 […]

On July 1, 2013, the official organ of the Cuban Communist Party announced the approval of 124 cooperatives to operate in the non-agricultural sector.1 Grisel Tristá Arbesú, head of the Grupo de Perfeccionamiento Empresarial de la Comisión Permanente para la Implementación y Desarrollo was quoted as explaining that this push to open a small area […]

Notes1 Despite the three years of negative growth that the Cuban tourism sector experienced at the start of the new century, it has seen positive growth (at an average of over 5.7% per annum) in the last five years. This recent performance has been accompanied by a drastic shift in the composition of tourist market […]

Notes1 “Memory is a weapon/ against the blood/ and shit of history/ that propaganda of the victors/ that frozen wasteland” (Pommersheim, 239). This stanza recognizes the fundamental reality in Cuba that there exists a disparity between “history” and “memory,” the official representation and the actual. These words characterize the philosophy of the New Cuban artists […]

La auténtica crisis en que se encuentra Cuba ha sido principalmente generada por la ausencia de líderes que logren llevar a sus seguidores a los objetivos deseados. La historia siempre ha sido escrita por líderes que han transformado al mundo, ya sea para bien o para mal, quienes han creado valores, iniciado religiones, revoluciones y […]