Multi-country transition studies, by their very nature, tend to mask issues and strategies that were pivotal in the path of specific countries. For this reason it is crucial to rely more on case studies of country experiences, like Hungary’s, to gain a detailed understanding. Consequently, the successful Hungarian transition experience during 1989–2006 is discussed in […]

26th of July, 440-444 acopio,  8,  17,  146-150,  154-155, 176 ACOREC, S.A., 135 Afghanistan, 354-355 Agramonte, Ignacio, 443 Agramonte, Roberto, 279 agriculture,  2,  14,  145-157,   200-201,  260,  262,  267,  290,  341-352,  417,  418,  421,   428, 429; coffee, 8; gardens, 291,   295-296; irrigation, 433-434; livestock, 21, 147, 343; maize, 213-214;  milk, 8; organopónicos, 295-296; poultry, 8; soil, fertility, 343-344; tobacco, 8, […]

In July of 1995, I began an assignment as a social worker for Catholic Social Services’ Refugee Resettlement Program in Mobile, Alabama. I was hired for the specific task of receiving and resettling Cuban refugees from the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay in southeastern Cuba, where over 20,000 Cuban balseros (rafters) were still being […]

Notes1 In “Fitzgibbon Survey of Latin American Democracy: An Update of the 2000 Tabulations,” Emporia State University Political Science Professor Phil Kelly asked whether “certain reformist and/or radical states, such as Cuba and Nicaragua, [are] given higher scale rankings because the majority of survey participants reflect a ‘liberal’ bias as was seen in the 1985 […]

Notes1 Partial results from the 2000 global census round, recently compiled by the University of Sussex’s Development Research Centre on Migration, plus examination of recent official Cuban statistics on emigration, are used in this paper to provide an approximate estimate of the Cuban-origin population residing abroad. These statistics are complemented with selected demographic and socioeconomic […]