Todo parece indicar que en la actualidad Cuba va rumbo a otro “periodo especial” si es que aceptamos la tesis—propuesta por algunas fuentes oficiales apenas antes que comenzara la crisis financiera mundial que se desató después del colapso de la famosa firma de Wall Street, Lehman Brothers en septiembre de 2008 en Estados Unidos—que ya […]

Notes1 Con la revolución del 1959, por primera vez en Cuba se iniciaron políticas cuyo propósito era la eliminación de toda forma de discriminación, y notablemente la racial, en el país. Como parte del amplio programa social del gobierno revolucionario, se concertó un esfuerzo concentrado del estado en erradicar las barreras raciales dentro de las […]

On February 24, 2010, Yoani Sánchez, the wellknown Cuban blogger and cyber-activist, was briefly detained (together with her sister) by state security agents in order to prevent them from signing a book of condolences at a service for the hunger striker Orlando Zapata Tamayo who had died the previous day. Not one to easily be […]

Notes1 Most Latin American countries became independent from Spain at the beginning of the 19th century. This happened through declarations of independence for areas similar but not identical to current geographical arrangements or for larger territories, comprising several current countries that later separated into the countries we know today. Instances of the latter are the […]

During the 1980s and the 1990s, the Cuban international tourism sector expanded at a rapid rate. Annual growth rates during the 1980s averaged 11.9% and the average annual rate of increase during the 1990s was approximately 18% (Espino 1992, 2000). The tourism sector soon became the star performer of the “special period.” At the turn […]