Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.13169/intejcubastud.15.1.0109
Betsy Anaya Cruz, Anicia García Álvarez
Cuba exhibe indicadores promedio de consumo aparente diario de alimentos que rebasan las recomendaciones nutricionales diarias. Sin embargo, este consumo depende en gran medida de importaciones de alimentos, ya que los esfuerzos de política por reactivar el sector agropecuario aún no se revierten en incrementos de la producción doméstica. Esta situación se ha acrecentado en años recientes, marcados por la pandemia de la Covid-19 y el recrudecimiento del bloqueo estadounidense. Como resultado, se evidencia una contracción de la disponibilidad de alimentos como resultado de las caídas en la producción nacional y en las importaciones. Ello, junto a otros factores, dificultan el acceso a los alimentos. Por demás, el gasto en alimentación sigue siendo el más importante dentro del gasto familiar, limitando las posibilidades de otros consumos igualmente relevantes. Este artículo examina en mayor profundidad la problemática que significa para las familias cubanas alcanzar la seguridad alimentaria en el contexto actual. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of International Journal of Cuban Studies is the property of Pluto Journals and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.13169/intejcubastud.14.2.0343
H. Michael Erisman
This article explores Cuba’s status within the context of strategic minerals politics, focusing specifically on cobalt. Cuba has the third largest cobalt reserves in the world, which is a crucial element in lithium-ion batteries (especially those used in electric cars). The US, on the other hand, is sorely lacking in cobalt, which is on Washington’s list of Strategic Raw Minerals and is ranked third in terms of its “supply chain risk”. The key issues/questions addressed in the article are: “Cobalt as a Strategic Raw Material”; an “Overview of Cuban Cobalt”; and “Cuban Cobalt: Economic and Political Implications”. The article concludes with an analysis of cobalt’s potential to enhance Havana’s bargaining power with respect to any negotiations with Washington which might occur regarding US economic sanctions in particular and normalization of relations in general.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.13169/intejcubastud.15.1.0089
José Ramón Sanabria Navarro, Yahilina Silveira Pérez, William Alejandro Niebles Nuñez
Migration is undoubtedly one of the oldest demographic variables. Human beings by their nature have been driven for various reasons to explore other territories. However, currently migration is generally caused by various factors not being quite right in the issuing country, and/or by the receiving country offering better opportunities. This article addresses one of the most controversial issues in Cuban society, the impact of emigrating. The idea is to address where and why Cubans emigrate as well as its socioeconomic implications, based on an interpretive paradigm grounded in the conceptualisation of what emigrating means in theory, and the causes of this socioeconomic phenomenon in Cuba. Although previous studies on Cuban migration have focused on the exodus to the United States, this is not the only destination, as Cubans have increasingly emigrated to various other countries as well in recent years.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.13169/intejcubastud.14.2.0252
Carlos Oliva Campos, G. Prevost
The authors begin from the premise that it is useful to analyse broad trends in international affairs by identifying key moments of change. The primary focus is the current phase of international affairs that has been labelled the post-Cold War world. The authors accept that the fall of the USSR at the end of 1991 marked an important change in geopolitics but argue that the 30-year time period since the fall of the Soviet Union has been marked by some very important changes. The era began with a seemingly omnipotent United States that proclaimed a New World Order of peace, prosperity and democracy. The authors analyse how that vision did not come to pass in the context of wars in the Middle East and the rise of China as a great power and the recovery of Russia. Cuba’s role in the post-Cold War era is analysed and preliminary thoughts are made on the potential changing world order in the context of the Russia-Ukraine War.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.13169/intejcubastud.14.2.0309
Ernesto Domínguez López, Raúl Rodríguez Rodríguez
The article proposes an approach to the US Cuba policy in the 21st century as public policy. We examine the core variables that drive this Cuba policy and their behaviour during the 21st century. We then identify the central axes of the policy and study their expressions. This allows us to explain the evolution of that policy across three administrations, the first year of a fourth and ten and a half legislative periods. The conclusions of the study provide a better understanding of the making and the nature of that policy. Consequently, it will help to explain the framework that the US Cuba policy creates to thwart the development of Cuba.
{"title":"There and back again: United States policy toward Cuba in the 21st century","authors":"Ernesto Domínguez López, Raúl Rodríguez Rodríguez","doi":"10.13169/intejcubastud.14.2.0309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/intejcubastud.14.2.0309","url":null,"abstract":"The article proposes an approach to the US Cuba policy in the 21st century as public policy. We examine the core variables that drive this Cuba policy and their behaviour during the 21st century. We then identify the central axes of the policy and study their expressions. This allows us to explain the evolution of that policy across three administrations, the first year of a fourth and ten and a half legislative periods. The conclusions of the study provide a better understanding of the making and the nature of that policy. Consequently, it will help to explain the framework that the US Cuba policy creates to thwart the development of Cuba.","PeriodicalId":41360,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Cuban Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66271253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.13169/intejcubastud.14.2.0214
Jorge Núñez Jover, Aurora Fernández González
The place of local development issues in the country’s economic and social development model has changed drastically, especially in the last three years. Documents such as the Constitution of the Republic and the National Plan for Economic and Social Development 2030, together with the discourse, a set of approved policies and numerous actions by the government, clearly indicate that local development is no longer considered a relatively peripheral issue, of limited importance and only partially understood. To the contrary, it is now seen as a key element of the socio-economic transformations under way. In many municipalities the government–higher education–local development links are being consolidated. The Articulated Platform for the Integral Development of the Territories is an important tool: a flexible, integrative, inter-territorial, multi-level and multi-actor platform that operates throughout the country. The article reviews some of the obstacles that hinder the advancement of local development. Displacing the traditional centralist and top-down model is a difficult task.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.13169/intejcubastud.14.2.0228
M. V. Díaz, Yahilina Silveira-Pérez, José Ramón Sanabria-Navarro, O. P. Gutiérrez
The Municipal Office of Tax Administration of Santiago de Cuba faces a sustained growth in the level of tax debt of the sector of self-employed workers who pay taxes under the general regime. In this paper, the factors that have the greatest influence on the behaviour of tax compliance in this segment of taxpayers are examined. Surveys were applied to selected experts from the institution, and to a selected sample, processed in SPSS 28.0 and applying prospective planning methods. It showed as key factors: the perception of risk, institutional control, tax justice, keeping documentation of fiscal relevance, trust in ONAT, communication and knowledge of the destination of their contributions to the budget. In addition, strategic recommendations are offered to strengthen strategic alliances with territorial organizations that intervene in compliance management.
{"title":"Comportamiento del cumplimiento tributario de los trabajadores por cuenta propia en Cuba","authors":"M. V. Díaz, Yahilina Silveira-Pérez, José Ramón Sanabria-Navarro, O. P. Gutiérrez","doi":"10.13169/intejcubastud.14.2.0228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/intejcubastud.14.2.0228","url":null,"abstract":"The Municipal Office of Tax Administration of Santiago de Cuba faces a sustained growth in the level of tax debt of the sector of self-employed workers who pay taxes under the general regime. In this paper, the factors that have the greatest influence on the behaviour of tax compliance in this segment of taxpayers are examined. Surveys were applied to selected experts from the institution, and to a selected sample, processed in SPSS 28.0 and applying prospective planning methods. It showed as key factors: the perception of risk, institutional control, tax justice, keeping documentation of fiscal relevance, trust in ONAT, communication and knowledge of the destination of their contributions to the budget. In addition, strategic recommendations are offered to strengthen strategic alliances with territorial organizations that intervene in compliance management.","PeriodicalId":41360,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Cuban Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66271226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.13169/intejcubastud.14.2.0365
A. Campbell
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.13169/intejcubastud.15.1.0050
Ana Garcia Chichester
This article explores the portrayal of the first Cuban war of independence against Spain (Ten Years’ War, 1868–1878) in print media in both Spain (Barcelona) and in Cuba (Havana). The Spanish press portrayed official reports on the war as falsehood and denounced the exclusionary treatment of Cubans of African descent. The Havana print media, although careful to avoid direct references to participation in the war by former slaves, addressed the racial composition of the Cuban army in a series of images questioning revolutionary values. In their illustrations, both journals derided the aspiration of Cubans living in the United States, and in particular the political movement in favour of annexation. Through the use of the graphic images and short texts that appeared as captions or footers, these publications sought to construct and consolidate public opinion on the idea of independence (for and against) and to insert themselves in the larger discussion and vision for the end of colonialism in Cuba.
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