Cuba’s future economic prosperity lies with the services sector. While agriculture and mining, the country’s two traditional resource-based sources of wealth, will remain important contributors to economic well-being, one of the most promising areas of economic activity, as it is already occurring, will be tourism. Even under the current circumstances, when tourists from the United […]

This paper is part of a plan to develop the Peña Prieta Institute to bio-prospect on family land between the Bayamo and the Guamá Rivers in the rain forests of the Sierra Maestra of old Oriente Province. These are the lands originally held by seven times wounded Mambí Colonel Don Benjamín Ramírez. On this land […]

Notes1 Under General Francisco Franco, Spain like other countries of Western Europe, declined to participate in the U.S.-inspired October 1960 embargo of Cuba. Indeed, the Spanish caudillo kept Iberian Airlines, the state run flagship carrier, flying as the only direct link between Cuba and Western Europe. From the late Franco era to the present, Spain’s […]

The concept of a culture of opposition (CO) under repressive political systems, most fully developed by Scott (1990), alerts us to the importance of culture, particularly language, other collective symbols, and disguised social norms and values used by persecuted people to adapt to undesirable political situations, to facilitate the occurrence of protests and other forms […]

Notes1 Three papers have been presented to the panel on Cuban Tourism on diverse topics: 1. The Cuban Tourism Industry and Perfeccionamiento Empresarial by Artimus Keiffer. The “entrepreneurial perfectionism,” a series of rules designed to regulate the administration of the Cuban enterprises that are the backbone of the economic recovery strategy after the demise of […]