Notes1 De Dulcinea, en ansias de la muerte, !di que siempre será la más fermosa! Del soneto “La más fermosa” Enrique Hernández Miyares This paper follows-up on earlier work (Romeu, 2007); we refer the reader to this material for background on Six Sigma and for an in-depth discussion of the need for a peaceful transition […]

Notes1 Since the second half of the 1990s the Central Bank of Cuba (BCC) has operated a dual monetary and exchange rate system, in which a largely convertible currency (the convertible Cuban peso, CUC) coexists with the “official” non-convertible currency (the Cuban peso, CUP). The existence of dual markets for currency and associated dual exchange […]

Notes1 The concept of political will can be applied to any context where actors in a political environment vary in their commitment and ability to attain a particular objective. The objectives in question can be comprehensive or non-comprehensive and they can be objectives independent observers view positively or negatively. In this analysis we will focus […]

Este trabajo no pretende, en lo más mínimo, ser una obra acabada del estudio del Derecho Constitucional y muy particularmente del Derecho Constitucional cubano. Muy por el contrario, ha sido designado para ayudar a entender el papel que juega la Constitución cubana dentro de la realidad de la isla y su papel como norma o […]

Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today and what we pass on to future generations. What makes the concept of World Heritage exceptional is its universal application. Cuba has the most impressive preserved example of Spanish military architecture. In the cities of Havana, Trinidad, Cienfuegos and Santiago de Cuba, we […]