En el punto más álgido de la Guerra Fría, las relaciones entre Cuba y otros países de la región del Gran Caribe eran dispares e inestables, reflejo de las corrientes opuestas de antagonismo ideológico y solidaridad política…..Al final de la Guerra Fría, quedó dispuesto el terreno para el desarrollo gradual de relaciones siguiendo líneas más pragmáticas. Para el 2002, el número de Estados de la región con quienes Cuba sostenía relaciones diplomáticas había crecido a 24…[...]
Brief analysis of the Cuba’s relations with the countries of the Greater Caribbean from the early 1970s, focusing on the period since the end of the Cold War. Provides statistics on the development of political and economic relations and technical cooperation since the early 1990s; and on Cuba’s participation in the activities of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS). Prepared for delivery at a conference on Cuba’s integration into the Western Hemisphere held in Wilton Park, U.K. in 2002.
The Best-Levitt plantation economy studies sought to identify the structural constraints on the growth and transformation of Caribbean economies that arise from the historical legacy of the plantation system and the pervasiveness of plantation type institutions in the contemporary economy in the form of the multinational corporation (MNC). It was also the intention to specify the features of a self reliant, self sustaining Caribbean economy that functions in the interests of the majority of the population.
