At last year’s ASCE meetings we presented a paper comparing the future of the Cuban tourism industry and its economic impact under two scenarios. We accepted the Ministry of Tourism’s figures projected through the year 2000 and formulated our own estimate of a ten-year projection through the year 2007. We chose to project ten years […]

The recent attention in the social sciences to social movement organizations as actors in the drama of social change, needs to be modified to make cultures of opposition the more inclusive topic of analysis and theorizing in comparative studies of change in political systems. The paper identifies ten attributes of cultures of opposition (CO) in […]

Además de los ya conocidos y estudiados procesos de reformas en los países de Europa Oriental, reviste gran importancia para Cuba el estudio de las transformaciones que han experimentado las economías de Latinoamérica. En este sentido, creemos que el caso mexicano constituye una experiencia digna de ser considerada. Pretendemos mediante este trabajo analizar brevemente los […]

The peculiar situation of the Cuban economy in the 1990s has brought to central stage the island’s role in world society.1 The severe crisis induced by the collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the old Soviet Union left Cuba’s state socialism facing the challenge of reintegration into a largely-capitalist world society. But the […]

Thank you for the opportunity to join you in Miami today and participate in your stimulating discussions on the Cuban economy. The main focus of my remarks will be a broad overview of the recent reform effort in Latin America and the Caribbean. Some may say that the differences between Cuba and the rest of […]