Notes1 This paper is on the assistance that may be required from various international organizations to support the Cuban transition after Castro’s demise in the light of the experience accumulated by these organizations in the last decade. Therefore, it is assumed that a Transition Government has replaced the present regime. Furthermore, it is also assumed […]
La Reforma Institucional Durante la Transición
Al acercarnos a las postrimerías del régimen de Castro, se torna más urgente la necesidad de considerar qué viene después. Castro ha introducido un régimen que ha privado al pueblo cubano de las libertades fundamentales reconocidas en la Declaración Universal de los Derechos del Hombre y de las condiciones materiales básicas para llevar una existencia […]
Cuba’s Balance of Payments Gap, the Remittances Scam, Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering
Other participants of this panel will discuss Cuba’s balance of payments. This paper does not address how the trade gap is met, only the remittances issue. However, you are referred to Table 5 in Jorge Pérez- López’s paper.1 Between 1993 and 1998, the cumulative trade gap reached US$10.1 billion. How can a country finance such […]
Measuring Cuban Public Opinion: Economic, Social and Political Issues
This paper, which is based on a larger report submitted to USAID by the Project Team,1 summarizes the results of the survey of public opinion with respect to the following areas: (1) humanitarian aid; (2) availability of goods and supplies; (3) educational attainments; (4) health attainments; (5) attitude toward reforms; (6) freedom of expression; (7) […]
Cuban Public Opinion Dynamics (1997–1998) and the Potential for Building a Civil Society
This paper is written as a policy paper to discuss the dynamics of public opinion in Cuba in terms of the impact of selected events on different groups of the population and the potential it provides for building a civil society in Cuba. It is a follow-up of a previous analysis published by Freedom House […]