In April 2009, the International Herald Tribune published an opinion piece by Dennis Avery titled, “Cubans Starve on a Diet of Lies,” in which Avery described Cuba’s recent agricultural success as “a great, gaudy, Communist-style Big Lie.”1 Avery, an economist with the Hudson Institute, a conservative U.S.- based think tank, criticized Cuba for a recent […]

“El negro cubano es totalmente cubano, por sentimiento, por cultura, por lealtad a la historia, por propia voluntad. Pero no estaba, no está, integrado de manera sólida y aceptada sin reparos en la sociedad cubana.” —Gastón Baquero La historia reciente y pasada de Cuba ha estado contaminada por el prejuicio racial. La existencia durante 166 […]

Notes1 In the 1990s, Cuba shifted the methodology of compiling its national account statistics from the Material Product System (MPS), used by centrally planned economies (CPEs), to the System of National Accounts (SNA) used by market economies. While there are some questions about how robustly Cuban statistical agencies currently are applying the SNA methodology,2 unquestionably […]

Este ensayo es una presentación de la historia de las relaciones Cubano-Israelíes. El énfasis se concentra en el periodo posterior a 1959, a partir del triunfo de la revolución cubana, pero el trabajo comienza presentando los antecedentes de dicha fase. Al final, se presentan propuestas de interacción bilateral que mitiguen la naturaleza conflictiva del diferendo […]

Notes1 Over the last two decades, the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) has become an influential actor in the Cuban economy. Since the initiation of the Special Period in the early 1990s, key corporations and economic industries have come under the management of the FAR in what can be seen as an evolving “military entrepreneurship” […]