Notes1 Interest in Cuban socioeconomic indicators is usually focused on pre- and post-Revolutionary comparisons. That is not the purpose of this paper. My focus here will be only on the pre-Revolutionary period. The purpose of this work is quite specific. It is to see whether the available data on socioeconomic indicators are consistent with the […]

Cuba is not a creditworthy country, having long defaulted on its external debt and accumulating payments arrears to a broad range of official and private creditors.1 As such the global economic crisis is having a profound impact on Cuba’s already restricted ability to obtain external finance. The crisis is affecting mostly the country’s ability to […]

Notes1 This paper evaluates the evolution of Cuba’s tourism sector from 2002–2007, and examines the relationship between tourism and the country’s merchandise imports for the same period. The analysis of Cuba’s tourism sector reveals its reliance on international trade, particularly merchandise goods required to meet the growing demands of foreign tourists and visitors. As Cuba […]

This report is the collective product of the Transportation Committee supported by the Cuban-American Association of Civil Engineers (CAACE) and the Asociación de Ingenieros Cubanos (AIC). The Transportation Committee is composed of Sergio Alfonso, Jr., Chair; Carlos A. Penin, Co-Chair; Armando I. Perez, CAACE Member; Maria F. Porrata, CAACE Member; Michael B. Acosta, AIC Member; […]

A previous article (Aguirre, 2006) criticized the point of view that disaster programs in Cuba should be emulated by other countries. It pointed out that Cuba has an excellent record when it comes to disaster preparedness and response involving warning and evacuation, in which governmental control of the population and the effective organization of the […]