Notes1 INTRODUCTION Potable water is indispensable to sustain human life. Throughout history, water has played a strategic role in promoting nation-building. During the Spanish Reconquista, for instance, Spanish forces manipulated water supply in Andalusia to secure a Moorish surrender and consolidate Spanish rule. As Havana grew to be one of the most important strategic ports […]

Notes1 A place without a past has no future. That Cuba is frozen in time is a commonplace that the casual visitor often expresses. Of course, what we observe and respond to is not stillness but the difference in movement—the vector and velocity of change—between worlds separated for a half century. Everything changes, even Cuba, […]

Las transiciones a la democracia a nivel mundial del último medio siglo han generado un caudal de experiencias y una extensa bibliografía sobre el modo de afrontar el pasado y un debate intelectual amplio y rico sobre sus diferentes aspectos—intelectuales, psicológicos y prácticos. Asimismo ha dado lugar a una toma de conciencia de los inmensos […]

From June 15 through September 20, 2016, Cuban society will engage in a nation-wide debate on two policy papers: Conceptualización del Modelo Económico y Social Cubano de Desarrollo Socialista (hereinafter “Model”), a theoretical framework of Cuba’s economic and social development model, and the Plan Nacional de Desarrollo Económico y Social hasta 2030 (hereinafter “2030 Plan”), […]

Érase una vez… Una gata que se enamoró de un hermoso joven y rogó a la diosa Afrodita que la convirtiera en mujer. La diosa, compadecida por el deseo de la gata, la transformó en una hermosa doncella, y el joven, prendado de su hermosura, se casó con ella. Pero, la noche de bodas, Afrodita […]