Notes1 In anticipation of an eventual political transition in Cuba, two Cuban-American engineering organizations in South Florida, the Cuban-American Association of Civil Engineers (C-AACE) and the Association of Cuban Engineers (ACE) have joined forces to create a Cuba Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Committee. This committee has begun to gather information and identify issues so that […]

Students of recent Cuban economic history will be familiar with the crisis the country underwent after the collapse of the Soviet Union and of the system of economic relationships between socialist countries known as COMECON (Canler, 2001). Almost overnight, Cuba lost the international economic relationships that underpinned its domestic economy. Among the resulting painful consequences […]

Cuba’s global relations are on the upswing. In the two years since Raúl Castro took power in July 2006, he has ushered in subtle but important changes in Cuba’s foreign policy while benefiting from a widely-shared desire on the part of many foreign countries to reach out to Cuba during its moment of transition away […]

After years of neglect, the Cuban government timidly started to promote international tourism in the mid- 1970s. By the mid-1980s, in the midst of an external sector crisis, the Cuban government embarked in a counter-reform, idealistic economic development program named the “Rectification of Errors and Negative Tendencies” (Mesa-Lago 2000). Along with the abolishment of free […]

Como en ocasiones anteriores tengo el honor de participar con el presente trabajo en la XVIII Conferencia Anual de la Asociación para el Estudio de la Economía Cubana. Ante todo deseo enviar un afectuoso saludo a todos los colegas participantes y desearles muchos éxitos en este importante encuentro tan significativo para el futuro de nuestro […]