El sector agropecuario (SA) encierra para la economía cubana una importancia significativa y estratégica. Las razones fundamentales por las cuales el SA resulta decisivo y estratégico, radican en: sector primario de la producción de alimentos con destino a la población y la rama ganadera, industria procesadora, y sustituto para la reducción de las importaciones de […]

Authors’ note “In 1954, only 8 percent of French households had a  refrigerator  or  a  washing  machine.”  Jeremy  D. Popkin, A History of Modern France, 2nd Edition. NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001, p. 255. We think of “fake news” as an answer to a question that has a more accurate response, and the answer is dispersed […]

Author’s note The performance of autocracies relative to democracies and to each other is of increasing interest to political scientists. In this article I attempt a contribution to that literature in a comparative study of three Hispanic dictatorships. They are those of Francisco Franco’s Spain, Fidel Castro’s Cuba and Augusto Pinochet’s Chile which, though not […]

It is widely documented that the Government of Cuba (GOC) and the Cuban Communist Party (CCP) continue to violate the basic human right of religious freedom . For decades they have espoused atheism as official policy for all Cuban citizens. In the international arena, they hide behind a carefully constructed façade of religious freedom while […]