Notes1 This report provides (1) an overview of Cuba’s purchases of U.S. agricultural, fish, and forestry products since 2000; (2) an analysis of the effects that U.S. government restrictions on export financing terms and travel to Cuba by U.S. citizens have on those Cuban purchases; and (3) estimates of likely U.S. agricultural sales if export […]

Notes1 Cuba, the largest Caribbean island, has approximately 186,554 km of roads; 53% of these roads are paved and provide reliable accessibility to nearly all the cities, towns, airports, harbors, and agricultural areas.1,2 The Cuban road density is approximately 2.6 km per 1,000 people or 272 km of roads per area of 1,000 Sq. Km. […]

Notes1 Whether one examines democratic or nondemocratic regimes one thing is certain: all governments need to legitimize themselves. As Gramsci and others have stipulated, legitimacy derives not merely from the effective enforcement of the rule of law or the menacing mechanisms of repression regimes have at their disposal but also from the dissemination of values […]

The Cuban diaspora1 is quite large. Based on a compilation of national population censuses by the Development Research Centre on Migration of the University of Sussex, Díaz-Briquets (2006) estimated that there were approximately 1 million Cuban-born individuals residing abroad at the turn of the 21st century. 2 The progeny of these individuals, who are also […]

Notes1 Primero que nada me quiero unir a los elogios de mis colegas de ASCE, Rolando Castañeda, Carmelo Mesa-Lago y Jorge Sanguinetty al trabajo hecho por el grupo de economistas del Centro de Formación Cívica y Religiosa de la Diócesis de Pinar del Río y sus colegas de otras diócesis de Cuba. Constituye un verdadero […]