It is not in devising a system, That the fearful dangers lurk; It is not in devising a system, But in making the system work. For the working out of the system Is not in the hands of the great; But rests on the shoulders of poor little clerks Like Mary and Jane and Kate. […]

Notes1 Forty-five years after the inception of a Revolution that was to be a trail blazing example for Latin America and Caribbean nations to follow, no takers have appeared despite innumerable professions of sympathy and moral support by near neighbors and far nations alike in our continent and elsewhere. The Cuban Revolution awoke deep sentiments […]

My presentation intends to share with you some thoughts on Cuba’s transition process, viewed as the sequence of events that will unfold in the island and abroad, once Fidel Castro ceases to control Cuba’s life. Hopefully, my comments will encourage Cuba’s stakeholders to pay greater attention to micro social issues and challenges, perhaps not as […]

Tourism has come to occupy, relatively suddenly, a central place in the economies of Caribbean nations previously reserved only for sugar and tobacco, and to a lesser extent, for coffee. It is now the primary source of foreign currency at each of the 30 or so Caribbean destinations, excepting the case of Cuba, where until […]

The level of education and health services in Cuba has been for years a reason of pride for its government. Even prestigious personalities not precisely friends of the Cuban regime have widely praised the island’s achievements in these fields. The allegedly first world level of Cuba in education and health is one of the cornerstones […]