Skimming US dollars from Cubazuela
With the recent suspension of scheduled commercial flights to nine destinations in Cuba, the Trump administration continues its policy of denying U.S. dollars to the Cuban government, especially its military elite, which is directly involved in domestic repression and...
Instead of reforms, an urgent net to catch slip-away dollars
In recent articles, the respected Cuban economists Carmelo Mesa-Lago and Emilio Morales described a gloomy economic picture for Cuba, with the collapse of indicators such as hard-currency income from professional services, foreign investment, trade and oil supplies...
Cuba: deconcentrating power is not equal to decentralize it
The (s)election on October 10th of Miguel Díaz-Canel as President of the Republic of Cuba and Esteban Lazo as President of the Council of State and the National Assembly of People’s Power (ANPP) came to corroborate the immobility of the Stalinist regime led by...
Latest X-ray of the Cuban Gulag
For decades, even after the issue of human rights abuses in Cuba fell under UN scrutiny in the 1980s, prisons on the island have remained, with rare exceptions, closed to impartial observers neither foreign nor domestic. “Our country will not accept monitors....