In order to comprehend the role that blogs play in Cuba, it is important to first understand the space blogs occupy in the rest of the world. A number of American journalists have expressed their disdain for bloggers culminating with author and columnist Buzz Bissinger’s recent expletive-filled tirade on Bob Costas’ TV show. Bissinger argued […]

Notes1 In October 2005, the U.S. Agency for International Development announced a contract award to Creighton University for a study on the resolution of property claims between Cuba and the United States. At the same time, officials from many different branches of the U.S. Government had just begun work on their own report on the […]

Notes1 The study presented at this conference on tourism trade between China and Cuba2 presents an interesting perspective on China, which appears to be an ever increasing economic presence in Latin America and the Caribbean. The novel forms that this Chinese presence has taken in the region, including through bilateral aid agreements, and strong foreign […]

Let me start my comments by emphasizing one unintended consequence of the Creighton University Report: to promote the long term task of a culture of lawfulness, rule of law, and establishing and independent judiciary. For that reason alone, the Report should be completed as it was intended and widely circulated here and in Cuba. I […]

The subject paper by José Azel is very well written, both from a literary and scholarly point of view. It is also manageable for readers better versed in economics as well as those less familiar with the subject matter. A weakness is that it stays solely within the bounds of the theoretical propositions selected for […]