This paper is part of a project on the political participation of cultural actors under authoritarian regimes, looking at them from both ends: the policies and these actors’ typical behaviour and strategies to cope with this environment. More specifically, it examines the recent evolution of cultural policy in Cuba, and proposes to apply the concept […]

En La Habana, el 18 de abril de 2011, durante el VI Congreso del Partido Comunista de Cuba, se aprobaron los Lineamientos de la Política Económico-Social del Estado que van revolucionando la realidad cubana. Uno de sus acápites fundamentales, es el que otorga mayor autonomía a la gestión de los municipios, en aras de incrementar […]

El 22 de abril de 2011 concluyó el VI Congreso del Partido Comunista de Cuba (PCC), considerado por la propaganda oficial como el más importante evento político del país. Esta vez el cónclave estuvo marcado por una peculiaridad inédita: a iniciativa de su líder Raúl Castro, los debates se ocuparon exclusivamente de la economía. El […]

In the spring of 2014, a series of news articles appeared indicating that U.S. food and agricultural exports to Cuba continued to plummet (“continuaron en picada”) (Café Fuerte; Cuba Standard; and Economic Eye on Cuba). Their evidence for this assessment was that the value of U.S. food and agricultural exports to Cuba in 2013 was […]

Notes1 Cuba’s economic policy is firmly based on ideological grounds. Consequently it is not wholly appropriate to evaluate its current reforms and growth strategy in the usual terms for transition economies that emphasize efficiency, the role of markets and ownership rights (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 2013). Nonetheless, taking into account the ideological context […]