Notes1 My first trip back to Cuba was to the Bay of Pigs in April of 1961. My second trip was in October of 1995. When Cuba did not have an Eastern European-type of transition after the Soviet Union collapsed I went back to try to understand why Cuba had survived. I was able to […]

Notes1 In this essay I will discuss the main issues that underlie the Cuban embargo from a political economy perspective. In this introduction we set the stage for our discussion by noting important features of embargoes in general. In the first substantive section of the paper we present a brief history of the origin and […]

Notes1,2 The deteriorated energy infrastructure of Cuba provides an opportunity to explore completely new forms of energy production. This report evaluates the potential of biohydrogen, the biological production of hydrogen fuel. Biohydrogen is chosen because it is a sustainable, renewable, and a clean energy source characterized by relatively low capital costs. We consider Cuba as […]

Notes1,2 When I first visited Havana, in 2003, I was struck by the fact that people there were always trying to sell me something. Usually, of course, these sales were proposed “on the left” — that lovely double-entendre meaning economic transactions generally not sanctioned by the socialist state. Through enigmatic productive activities known collectively as […]

El siguiente trabajo es un ejercicio de opinión sobre las transformaciones que comienzan a raíz del traspaso del poder de Fidel a Raúl Castro y construyen “el modelo por el cual apuesta la revolución y sus dirigentes.”1 Se fundamenta en hechos empíricos sustraídos de una observación amplia de la realidad cubana y toma en cuenta […]