Guantanamo Bay has been a “sure thing” for more than a century—a fixture of Cuba’s geographic space where the U.S. intended to stay and carry out activities it deemed in the interest of national security. But now a convergence of developments raises uncertainty about the future of the lease by which the U.S. controls this […]

Anyone familiar with the history of relations between the United States and Cuba in the last fifty years knows that the United States has in place a strict embargo on trade with, and on economic assistance to, Cuba. Pursuant to this embargo, it is virtually impossible for all but a very narrow category of persons […]

Notes1,2 Some of the major problems facing Cubans today seem, at first glance, to be of a monetary nature. High prices in relation to salaries and a dual currency/dual exchange rate system appear to be sources of difficulties. While lack of purchasing power is ultimately caused by basic structures of the Cuban economy, monetary policy […]

“Cambiadas las estructuras mentales, no hay más que un paso para que cambien las estructuras de la realidad.” —Friedrich Hegel Ante todo un saludo afectuoso a todos los participantes en esta XIX Conferencia Anual de la Asociación para el Estudio de la Economía Cubana, y el agradecimiento por haberme invitado nuevamente a presentar mis criterios […]

Notes1 El 4 de junio de 1989 es una de las fechas que pudiéramos escoger para señalar simbólicamente el comienzo de una nueva era en la historia de la humanidad: el fin del comunismo y del mito de las revoluciones violentas como solución para el progreso de los pueblos. Todo acontecimiento que ha conmocionado los […]