The Cuban Embargo has had a tremendous effect on the way in which Cuba is understood in the global legal order. The understanding has vitally affected the way in which Cuba is situated for study both within and outside the Island. This “Embargo mentality” has spawned an ideology of presumptive separation that, colored either from […]

Tough times require tough decisions. If Cuba’s healthcare system and biotechnology are to survive over the longer term, Cuba must face its demons and take steps to implement systemic changes to maintain it. The system is beginning to experience visible fissures that, if not addressed, may jeopardize its ability to honor the Cuban constitutional guarantee […]

The decision by the United States to use its naval station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, as a detention center for alleged terrorists was based largely on a feature of the site that has become known as the legal “black hole.”1 This refers to the fact that Guantánamo Bay is part of Cuba’s sovereign territory but […]

Notes1 Information has always been a liberating force, and throughout history, totalitarian and authoritarian regimes have always attempted to control it. Traditionally, they have resorted to isolation and the outright banning of information media to achieve their goals. Yet these closed societies have often faced a different kind of dilemma: that of information’s usefulness to […]

The toppling of the Berlin Wall sparked tremendous changes, but few could have predicted that its fall would mark the beginning of a real estate boom. From Europe to Asia, a different kind of “domino effect” occurred in which property values in one Communist country after the other skyrocketed over the ensuing decade.1 In Estonia, […]