A New Chapter in US-Cuba Relations

Part of the Studies of the Americas Book Series

Editors: Hershberg, Eric; LeoGrande, William M.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-29595-4

ISBN: 978-3-319-31151-7

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Apr 18, 2016

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Chapter 11Foreign Direct Investment in Cuba: A Necessity and a Challenge

Villanueva, Omar Everleny Pérez

Pages: 143 –159

[Foreign investors, absent since the 1959 Revolution, returned to the Cuban economy at the beginning of the 1990s in the context of the so-called Special Period. In certain spheres, such as tourism, foreign capital was very dynamic and propelled fundamental structural change. In general, however,...
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Chapter 12Entrepreneurial Reform, Market Expansion, and Political Engagement: Risks and Opportunities for Cuba Today

Henken, Ted A.; Vignoli, Gabriel

Pages: 161 –177

[After consolidating his new government once becoming president in 2008, Raúl Castro made a series of unprecedented moves in late 2010 to encourage the re-emergence of private self-employment (known as trabajo por cuenta propia or cuentapropismo)—explicitly reversing Fidel Castro’s policy that,...
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Chapter 13Onstage or Backstage? Latin America and US-Cuban Relations

Serbin, Andrés

Pages: 179 –189

[On December 17, 2014, three days after Havana celebrated the tenth anniversary of the official creation of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (or ALBA, its acronym in Spanish), Presidents Barack Obama and Raúl Castro announced that, after more than half a century of hostilities between the...
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Chapter 14Conclusion: Keys to Assessing Progress Toward Establishing Normal Relations between the United States and Cuba

LeoGrande, William M.; Hershberg, Eric

Pages: 191 –198

[Events have moved quickly since President Barack Obama and President Raúl Castro announced their agreement to normalize relations last December 17—quickly at least as compared to how little progress was made over the previous fifty-four years. The two presidents have met twice face-to-face for...

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