Author’s note La crisis económica, el impacto de la globalización y el turismo en Cuba y el daño antropológico que provocan los modelos autoritarios bloqueadores de la iniciativa ciudadana, encuentran soluciones en profundidad cuando se acude a la identidad cultural, a la promoción de valores, y a la educación integral del ciudadano. Los proyectos culturales […]

Since 2007, the Cuban government has implemented a series of transformations to “update” Cuba’s socialist economic model. According to Mesa-Lago (2014), the economic reforms implemented by Raúl Castro since 2007 are classified into three categories: (1) administrative measures; (2) gradual reforms to transform selected sectors of the economy; and (3) structural reforms. The first category […]

La producción de hortalizas está avalada por el registro de una tendencia mundial hacia su mayor consumo, dado la necesidad de lograr en la dieta una más alta ingestión de fibra dietética, vitaminas y minerales En una vida moderna que favorece el sedentarismo, las necesidades calóricas tienden a disminuir. Hoy día hay una mayor percepción […]

With the dismantling of the Cuban sugar industry beginning in 2000, approximately two million hectares of land occupied by sugarcane plantations, supplying 156 sugar mills troughout the country, became available for alternative uses. Government authorities decided to take out of sugarcane production over 1.3 million hectares, mostly in the eastern part of the country, while […]

On January 16, 2015, the U.S. government published amended rules to the U.S. Treasury Department’s  Office  of  Foreign  Assets  Control  (OFAC) Cuban Assets Control Regulations which read as follows: Persons subject to U.S. jurisdiction are authorized to engage in all transactions, including payments, necessary to import [into the United States] certain goods and services produced […]