Cuban foreign policy can be divided into two stages since the victory of the Cuban Revolutionary in 1959. The first stage is from 1959 to the late 1980s and the early 1990s. In this period, Cuba adhered to the so-called proletarian internationalism, namely to keep the brotherly friendship with the Soviet Union and other communist […]

The combination of the international financial crisis and the deep erosion of much of Cuba’s export capacity in recent years by policy errors and natural disasters, resulted in a very serious liquidity shortage, forcing the government to further curtail essential imports. It also led to extraordinary measures to enhance the liquidity of the Central Bank […]

This report is partly based on two law review articles written by the author: Real Estate Investment in Cuba: Back to the Future, 11 Florida Journal of International Law (University of Florida) No.3, 1997. Real Estate Development in Cuba: Present and Future, 15 ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law (Nova Southeastern University) No.3, 2009. […]

The 26 of July 2007 speech by Raúl Castro, the then newly incoming Cuban President, was a breakthrough in the history of public pronouncements by Cuban revolutionary leaders. Probably for the first time, the country’s president acknowledged that the economic system was tied up by a large number of bureaucratic impediments that had caused serious […]

I should make clear at the outset that I am here in my private capacity as a writer about Cuba and not in any way as a correspondent for National Public Radio. Anything I say here today is my private opinion. Having gotten that out of the way, I want say how delighted I am […]