It is with much professional satisfaction that we discuss Dr. Diego Roqué’s Markov model, implemented in his paper “Rainfall in Little Havana.” For, as we have stated in previous ASCE papers (Romeu, 1996) there is much need for review, update and implementation of quantitative modeling methods in our analyses of the Cuban situation. Roqué’s paper […]

Professor Font’s paper offers an analysis of both the expected and, what is not the same thing, the hopedfor impacts of Latin America’s democratization and economic liberalization and integration on the Castro regime as the latter, having survived the Soviet collapse, seeks economic and political re-insertion into the region. Over the last two decades, Latin […]

It is a privilege to be invited to discuss a paper written by Claudio Loser. I must say that Dr. Loser has written a short but excellent paper that carries a very important lesson for the future of the Cuban economy. That lesson is, in Dr. Loser’s own words, “Cuba can draw important lessons from […]

This is a well structured and written paper. The topic could not be more important this year since tobacco is now among Cuba’s top four earners of foreign exchange. The paper starts by discussing the international cigar market, followed by a section on tobacco and cigars in Cuba, then the quantification of the U.S. cigar […]

The authors are commended for having accomplished a mission impossible: they have written a paper on small-scale enterprise which is informative, readable and most interesting.[ref]The paper by Peters and Scarpaci is not included in this volume. It is available in the internet at http://www.adti.net/html_files. Ed.[/ref] This is due mainly to an abundance of snapshots and […]