Cubans bear the scars of that terrible time, and for many the current situation is still not that much better. So Cuba was a basket case that was subsidized by the Soviet Union. When the Evil Empire collapsed and the subsidies ended, the basket case became a hellhole. The good news, if...
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It would be the first time since 1976 that a person who does not have the last name Castro would likely be the president of Cuba since the 1959 revolution. "I think the change of president will be good because that way we will have a leader with newer and current ideas," Rosalia Marti...
This educational trip will focus on thecurrent implementation of economic reforms and the complex political climate in the Island.We will meet with Cubans from all walks of life to get a better understanding of the reforms and how they understand socialism today. We will see first-hand, how th...
Focuses on the political and economic conditions in Cuba and discusses the extent to which the U.S. is responsible for the current situation in Cuba. Discussion of the terroristic methods used by President Gerardo Machado; Consequences o...
current geopolitical landscape, it is time to reconsider whether concern for human rights abuses at one end of the political spectrum must continue to foreclose consideration of the excesses of the other. Argentine political scientist Claudia Hilb has noted that many Latin American leftists feel ...
Discusses the political situation in Cuba, as of March 1991. Effect of the reforms introduced by Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev on its relations with Cuba; Importance of the ability of the government of Cuba to build alternative trade relations; Details on how the Cuban Communist Party ...
Cuba is a small nation whose recent history and current internal situation elicit a great deal of ideological controversy. However, a deeper analysis reveals that even if it is impossible to accurately predict the country’s path in the near future, the impersonal influence of geopolitical realities...
A case in point: the Economy Minister, who recently stated that "the current situation is complex, but, with great effort, we are guaranteeing milk for children"... How can we not love him if, thanks to his efforts, our children can drinkmilk?
1901. By these provisions Cuba promised not to incur debts its current revenues could not bear, to continue the sanitary administration undertaken by the U.S.military government, to leasenaval stationsto the U.S., and, if necessary, to permit the U.S. to intervene in order to preserve Cu...