This paper looks at the past, present and future of the Internet in Cuba.1 At the dawn of the Internet, Cuba led the Caribbean in computer networking and was well positioned to continue to lead. But the Cuban Internet stagnated due to the collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S. embargo, and the “dictator’s dilemma”—a […]

Cuba seized the properties of Cubans, Americans and other foreigners on the island starting in 1959, with the bulk of the expropriations taking place in the second half of 1960. The process started in 1959 with the Cuban government’s takeover of agricultural and cattle ranches under the Agrarian Reform Law and reached a critical stage […]

Notes1 Despite the acceptable results obtained so far in handing over idle lands in usufruct under Decree- Law No. 259 of 2008, thousands and thousands of hectares of arable land still await hands ready to produce what the population and the national economy so much need and what can be harvested from our fields to […]

En 1848, una obra vio la luz dentro de las turbulencias sociales y con ella, una frase se repetiría en los días venideros al desarrollo histórico de las naciones: un fantasma recorre Europa: el fantasma del comunismo. Ahora, más allá de un siglo y medio, otra cuestión intenta sensibilizar el sentimiento de las naciones, ya […]

This intellectual effort adds to the already long list of efforts to draw the lessons of various transitions for Cuba, most of which have been published by the Institute for Cuban and Cuban American Studies (ICCAS) at the University of Miami and others at previous conferences of the Association for the Study of the Cuban […]