Notes[ref]An earlier version was presented at the conference “Reforming Communism: Cuba in Comparative Perspective,” Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh, November 6–8, 2014.[/ref] Since Raúl Castro assumed Cuba’s top leadership position — on a temporary basis in 2006 and permanently in 2008 — Cuba has experienced numerous economic policy changes aimed at ending […]

Notes[ref]Editor’s Note: This essay was awarded First Prize in the 2015 ASCE Student Competition for graduate students.[/ref] Art biennials are major art exhibitions that happen every two years. They inform a global art community of nomadic professionals and objects moving from city to city, reassembling in variable narratives parallel to market trends. In 1980 the […]

Notes[ref]This paper is a revised and updated version of testimony the author presented to the U.S. International Trade Commission in June 2015.[/ref] This paper assesses the effects of the U.S. trade restrictions on our telecommunication exports to Cuba. Since there is a great deal of uncertainty about the Cuban plans and policies and U.S. policy […]

Notse[ref]I am grateful to Luis Locay and Jorge Pérez-López for their comments on earlier drafts of this paper.[/ref] Cuba, along with many other countries, is in the midst of a transcendental demographic transformation. Concerns regarding high fertility and population growth rates (the “population explosion”) are giving way to alarm about population aging, mostly due to […]

El presente trabajo persigue dos objetivos fundamentales. Primero, el de proporcionar un ejemplo del trabajo que el exilio cubano[ref]También llamada Diáspora. Formada por cubanos que salieron de la isla a partir de la revolución de 1959, mayormente pero no únicamente hacia EEUU, y que a través de los años incluye a diferentes oleadas con distintas […]