Notes1 With a truly historic first session of the long-postponed VI Communist Party Congress just concluded, Cuban politics appear to be reaching a critical point. For the first time since 1997, the Communist Party has convened a Party Congress, the gathering at which the party discusses and launches a five-year plan for the nation, defining […]

No existe una sola nación que no esté formada por una mezcla de razas. La publicación reciente del mapa genético por los profesores Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Paolo Menozi y Alberto Piazza, niega toda base científica al racismo. El 99,9% de los genes de toda la humanidad son iguales: 99,9% de blancos, negros, amarillos, o lo que […]

In January of 1948, Bohemia, Cuba’s most popular magazine, published an opinion poll regarding the attitudes of Cubans toward past and present leaders. One query asked residents of Las Villas province to name the best and worst president in the island’s history. Ramón Grau San Martín topped the list as Cuba’s greatest chief executive, with […]

De nuevo el Gobierno de Cuba (GC) está envuelto en un lento y parcial proceso de ajustes socioeconómicos. Está repitiendo algunos tímidos y cautos ajustes que empleó en los años 1980s y 1990s. Si bien tienen algunos aspectos novedosos y transformadores— p. ej. el abandono de la errónea política de pleno empleo, la autorización de […]

Notes1 For years, Cuba was and remains one of the world’s nations with the greatest share of workers employed by the state, currently about 80% of the workforce. While widespread government employment kept unemployment rates low, it engendered substantial underemployment and low labor productivity, perennial problems of Cuba’s socialist economy (Mesa-Lago 2010). Following the collapse […]