Sugar production in Cuba during the 20th century has never been curtailed by the installed industrial capacity. It is easy to increase the cane grinding rate on a short notice in such a manner as to process any expansion of the cane supply within the normal harvesting season. The communist government was fortunate the mills […]

The economic reforms that have been implemented in Cuba in recent years bear similarities to the structural adjustment programs of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB). Pressured by the economic crisis of the early 1990s, the Cuban government has moved toward deregulation of foreign investment and partial privatization of state enterprises […]

The collapse of the Soviet bloc severely jolted the remaining communist world. Two long-time Soviet allies, Vietnam and Cuba, suddenly found their chief benefactor, from which substantial assistance had consistently flowed, to have vanished. Consequently, their leaderships had to attend immediately to sorting though alternative policies that might bring about rapid economic growth while averting […]

Notes[ref]Entendemos por equidad brindar condiciones de vida mínimas aceptables a toda la población en términos de ingreso y servicios sociales básicos. Equidad no es mantener la distribución del ingreso igualitaria sino brindar igualdad de oportunidades a toda la población. Inclusión es que la población participe adecuadamente en los beneficios de la recuperación y el crecimiento […]

Early in 1995, Senator Helms, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced in the Senate, along with a bipartisan coalition of more than twenty co-sponsors, the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (Libertad) Act of 1995. Dan Burton, Chairman of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee of the House’s International Relations Committee, along with an even broader […]