Reviews

Reviews

The Cuban Revolution: Origins, Course and Legacy by Marifeli Perez-Stable, Oxford University Press, 1993, 236 pp., $23 (cloth). Marifeli Pdrez-Stable,
The Meaning of "Cuba": Four Personal Reflections

The Meaning of “Cuba”: Four Personal Reflections

THE MEANING OF "CUBA": FOUR PERSONAL REFLECTIONS Sandinista comandante Doris Tijerino, Cuban-American scholar Marifeli Pérez-Stable, Argentine social historian Carlos Vilas
The New Agrarian Reforms

The New Agrarian Reforms

THE NEW AGRARIAN REFORMS The conversion of Cuba's state-farm sector into a network of workers' cooperatives, and the reopening of
The Social Repercussions of the Crisis

The Social Repercussions of the Crisis

THE SOCIAL REPERCUSSIONS OF THE CRISIS Being a loyal revolutionary who worked within the system used to have its rewards.
Clinton's Cuba Calculus

Clinton’s Cuba Calculus

CLINTON'S CUBA CALCULUS While recent events provided Clinton with an opportunity to fundamentally rethink U.S. policy, he let the moment
Cuba's Economic Conundrum

Cuba’s Economic Conundrum

CUBA'S ECONOMIC CONUNDRUM Cuba's slow recovery from an economic crisis in which living standards have become more austere than at
CUBA Adapting to a Post-Soviet World

CUBA Adapting to a Post-Soviet World

In few places were the reverberations of the collapse of the Soviet bloc more strongly felt than Cuba. Over the
Newsbriefs

Newsbriefs

LETELIER ASSASSIN STILL NOT BEHIND BARS SANTIAGO DE CHILE, AUGUST 2, 1995 Chilean President Eduardo Frei and current army chief
Life in the Special Period

Life in the Special Period

LIFE IN THE SPECIAL PERIOD Cubans without access to dollars solve this problem–the verbs to solve, to get and to
The Internal Policy Debate

The Internal Policy Debate

Looking beyond crude electoral calculations, a number of Clinton's foreign-policy specialists have pushed internally for a moderate relaxation of sanctions
Letters

Letters

Solidarity and the Democracts Van Gosse's article, "Active Engagement: The Legacy of Central America Solidarity" [March/April, 1995] contains tremendous illusions
Taking Note

Taking Note

THE CASE OF RUTA 100: MURDER AND PRIVATIZATION IN MEXICO CITY The murders which followed protests of Mexico City's decision