Los testimonios sobre experiencia carcelaria en Cuba post-revolucionaria han sido estudiados y promovidos, fundamentalmente, por el periodismo literario. La crítica académica, sin embargo, casi no se ha ocupado de estas obras, las cuales incluyen poemarios, relatos y hasta documentales cinematográficos. Si exceptuamos Linden Lane Magazine, co-dirigida por los poetas Belkis Cuza Malé y Heberto Padilla, […]

From a historical perspective, the crisis of Cuban public life is rooted in Cuba’s colonial experience. It was then that the seed of an incompatible relationship between Cuba’s economic and political institutions was planted. The genesis of this crisis is the nature of the social stratification created by Spanish colonialism. It engendered a form of […]

Según el diccionario logro es la acción de alcanzar, conseguir algo. La idea de logro siempre expresa sentido positivo y se relaciona con desarrollo y evolución. Cuando afirmamos que hemos logrado algo establecemos una comparación con un determinado punto de partida, el resultado de esa comparación debe ser positivo para que se pueda considerar logro. […]

Notes[ref]Many friends and colleagues have contributed to our research in various ways throughout time. In particular we acknowledge our discussant, Dr. A. Lago, President of ASCE; Mr. J. F. Alonso, also of ASCE, who facilitated us some data; Dr. C. Mesa-Lago, of U. Pittsburgh; Mr. S. Lippe, of Radio Marti; Dr. J. Clark, of Miami […]

The dissolution of the socialist community has had severe repercussions on the Cuban economy. Prior to these momentous changes, the former Soviet Union and the socialist nations of Eastern Europe were Cuba’s economic lifeline. In 1989, the most recent year for which official data are available, the former Soviet Union and the socialist countries of […]