Las transiciones a la democracia a nivel mundial del último medio siglo han generado un caudal de experiencias y una extensa bibliografía sobre el modo de afrontar el pasado y un debate intelectual amplio y rico sobre sus diferentes aspectos—intelectuales, psicológicos y prácticos. Asimismo ha dado lugar a una toma de conciencia de los inmensos […]
The Port of Mariel and Cuba-Brazil’s Unusual “Medical Cooperation”
For over a decade the Brazilian government has committed millions of its taxpayer reais to support infrastructure projects, food exports, and an assortment of initiatives benefitting Cuba. This support is nowhere more evident than in the refurbished Port of Mariel. The groundwork for the tight bilateral relationship was laid out just months into the first […]
Cuba: ¿Hacia dónde van las “reformas”?
El siguiente trabajo es un ejercicio de opinión sobre las transformaciones que comienzan a raíz del traspaso del poder de Fidel a Raúl Castro y construyen “el modelo por el cual apuesta la revolución y sus dirigentes.”1 Se fundamenta en hechos empíricos sustraídos de una observación amplia de la realidad cubana y toma en cuenta […]
Cuba’s Business of Humanitarianism: The Medical Mission in Haiti
From the earliest days of the revolution, efforts to legitimize the Marxist Leninist project centered on free and universal healthcare and education. Real and/or reported achievements, aided by a tight control and manipulation of statistics, together with vigorous propaganda efforts worldwide have created an exceptionally favorable international opinion of Cuba’s universal health and education systems. […]
Cuba-Venezuela Health Diplomacy: The Politics of Humanitarianism
For decades Fidel Castro has “exported” professionals, mostly doctors,1 to the developing world to serve as “missionaries for the Cuban Revolution.”2 These brigades of “proletarian internationalists,” as they are referred to at home,3 have two primary goals: to earn hard currency and advance other economic goals of the regime and to gain political influence, prestige, […]
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