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2011-10-04 / Jorge Olivera Castillo / Cuba-Europe Dialogues

Private Business and Emerging Chaos

Private Business and Emerging Chaos   Jorge Olivera Castillo   The working style known in Cuba as running own business, should be closed between two interrogation marks and an early applause to it should be kept off. The possibility to earn for living this way is quite far away from a relatively less hazardous way.   To have a clear definition of what has happened and what ... more

Will Cuban Socialism terminate in chaos?

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2007-12-01 / Oscar Espinosa Chepe / Cuba-Europe Dialogues

Cuba and Spain – Relations and Contradictions

The ties between Cuba and Spain have deep roots. Besides Puerto Rico, Cuba was the last Spanish colony in Latin America after thirty years of war with intervals of peace. The Cuban victory in 1898, obtained ... more

2007-12-01 / Pavel Res / Cuba-Europe Dialogues

Cuba Is Never Alone

Cuba and Its EU Business Partners ‘Castro’s Cuba has never been alone’, smiles Alicia, a Cuban revolucionaria in her sixties who rents rooms in her Havana flat.  Unfortunately this ... more

2007-12-01 / Maria C. Werlau / Cuba-Europe Dialogues

Fidel Castro Inc. and Regime Survival in Cuba

A frequently overlooked, yet critical, aspect to analyze the prospects for regime survival after Fidel Castro’s final demise has to do with the extra-official global business and financial conglomerate ... more

2007-09-01 / Leszek Balcerowicz / Cuba-Europe Dialogues

Costs and befits of a transition: Economic lessons from Poland

What I will discuss here is based on various studies carried out over the past few years on the process of transformation within a country, its economy and society in Central and Eastern Europe, where ... more

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2013-04-22 / The Miami Herald

U.S.: Short-term detentions in Cuba reach record levels

Cuba saw a record number of “politically motivated and at times violent short-term detentions” during 2012, according to the U.S. State Department’s “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices,” which was released Friday...more


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2013-04-18 / The Washington Post

Cuba’s Ladies in White due in Brussels to receive 2005 Sakharov human rights award

 Members of Cuba’s Ladies in White opposition group will finally pick up Europe’s top human rights prize from 2005 in person next week in Belgium, the European Union and the daughter of the group’s former leader said Wednesday...more

2013-04-16 / The Washington Post

Cuba avoids oil cutoff for now as Chavez ally narrowly wins Venezuela presidential election

Cubans were relieved Monday by the announcement that the late leader Hugo Chavez’s hand-picked successor had been elected Venezuela’s new president, apparently allowing their country to dodge a threatened cutoff of billions of dollars in subsidized oil...more

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