Book Review Essay: Cuba: Confronting the U.S. Embargo
In the wake of the Clinton Administration's recent decision to reject a bipartisan commission's recommendation to lift the U.S. embargo, ...
The Virtues and Misfortunes of Civil Society
The first time that I heard someone argue about the importance of civil society in Cuba was in 1984, during ...
Inequality and Anomie
During the first three decades of the revolution, there was a gradual transformation of the Cuban population's values in favor ...
Thinking About Socialism: The New Cuban Social Sciences
As in other fields of scientific production, the development of the social sciences is intimately related to the specific problems ...
Washington Loosens the Knot (Just a Little)
It was a far cry from the opening even many Republican moderates had urged, but Bill Clinton's announcement in early ...
The High Cost of Dollars
This past January 5, in a major speech commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the National Revolutionary Police, ...
Inside Cuba
Cuba is not the only country in which life has become more difficult in the 1990s. But it is a ...
The Cuban Revolution: Resilience and Uncertainty
There can be little doubt that Fidel Castro's regime has demonstrated a notable and, for many, surprising capacity for survival ...