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REVOLUTION IN THE REVOLUTION: Recent Developments in the Cuban Economy

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¿Quo vadis, Cuba? La incierta senda de las reformas. Edited by AlonsoJosé Antonio and VidalPavel. Madrid: Los Libros de la Catarata, 2013. Pp. 302. ISBN: 9788483198322.

Cuban Economists on the Cuban Economy. Edited by CampbellAl. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013. Pp. xvii + 337. $79.95 cloth. ISBN: 9780813044231.

Cuban Economic and Social Development: Policy Reforms and Challenges in the 21st Century. Edited by DomínguezJorge I., VillanuevaOmar Everleny Pérez, PrietoMayra Espina, and BarberiaLorena. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Pp. iii + 333. $24.99 paper. ISBN: 9780674062436.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2022

Archibald R. M. Ritter*
Affiliation:
Carleton University
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References

1. Cuban Communist Party, “Speech by the First Vice-President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, at the main celebration of the 54th Anniversary of the attack on Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Garrisons, at the Major General Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz Revolution Square in the city of Camagüey, July 26th, 2007, ‘Year 49 of the Revolution,‘” Diario Granma, July 27, 2007.

2. “Key Address by Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, President of the State Council and the Council of Ministers and Second Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee,” Yohandryweb's Noticias, April 4, 2010, http://yohandryweb.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/300/.

3. President Raúl Castro, speech at the close of the Seventh Legislature of the National Assembly, July 11, 2008.

4. Régis Debray, Revolution in the Revolution? Armed Struggle and Political Struggle in Latin America (New York: Penguin Books, 1968).

5. Other books focusing on this theme include Mauricio A. Font and Carlos Riobó, eds., Handbook of Contemporary Cuba: Economy, Politics, Civil Society, and Globalization (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2013); Claes Brundenius and Ricardo Torres Pérez, eds., No More Free Lunch: Reflections on the Cuban Economic Reform Process and Challenges for Transformation (New York: Springer, 2013); and Alberto Gabriele, ed., The Economy of Cuba after the VI Party Congress (New York: Nova Publishers, 2012).

6. United Nations Development Program, Human Development Report, 2013, Statistical Annex, Table 14, p. 194.

7. Carmelo Mesa-Lago, The Labor Sector and Socialist Distribution in Cuba (New York: Praeger, 1968).

8. Six of the seven Cuban authors were from CEEC and five of the Spanish authors are from the Universidad Complutense. The editor on the Cuban side, Pavel Vidal, was at CEEC but is currently at the Pontifica Universidad Javeriana at Cali, Colombia.

9. The authors contrast the highly successful nickel sector, which has had a major role for foreign investment (in the form of Sherritt International) with the autarkic and disastrous sugar sector.