Note The quantitative expansion of self-employment from 150,000 to nearly 600,000 licensed cuentapropistas between 2010 and 2018 during the presidency of Raúl Castro can be celebrated given its expansion of economic freedom, the provision of job opportunities, greater productivity and efficiency, and a markedly higher quality of goods and services for those who can afford […]
Experiencias de Cuentapropistas
Author’s note Durante el congreso anual de ASCE del verano del año 2014, se organizó una mesa redonda con cinco cuentapropistas cubanas con el patrocinio del Cuba Study Group. Presidido por Phil Peters, el panel incluyó a Niuris Higueras, la dueña de la paladar (restaurante privado) L’Atelier; Yamina Vicente, dueña de Decorazón, una empresa que […]
Self-Employment in Today’s Cuba: Quantitative Expansion Amid Qualitative Limitation
Recent events have revealed a lack of control on the part of government institutions leading to illegalities in the exercise of self-employment, which were not confronted with the necessary resolve creating an environment of impunity and stimulating the accelerated growth of activities that have never been authorized. […] Problems should be identified before they appear […]
From Nada to Nauta: Internet Access and Cyber-Activism in A Changing Cuba
Today, with the development of information technologies, […] social networks, […] computers and the Internet, to prohibit something is nearly an impossible chimera. It makes no sense. Today, news from all sources, good and bad, manipulated, true, and half-true, circulate on the web and reach people. The worst response then, what is it? Silence. —Miguel […]
The Rebirth of the Cuban Paladar: Is the Third Time the Charm?
Self-employment in Cuba: The sum of a Haitian bazaar, a Swedish tax rate, and North Korean political representation. Quite a model for the 21st century. —Cuesta Morúa (2013) In interviews with Cuba’s micro-entrepreneurs over the past 10–15 years, I occasionally heard one of the two following old Spanish sayings: “El ojo del amo engorda el […]
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