Conquering Nature provides the only book-length analysis of the environmental situation in Cuba after four decades of socialist rule, based on extensive examination of secondary sources, informed by t
This volume analyzes Cuban socioeconomic policies and evaluates their performance since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the socialist camp. It provides a brief historical background to the crisis
"Mesa-Lago and Perez-Lopez have achieved the rarest of feats: they have given us a dispassionate, data-rich, comparative, provocative, and policy-oriented analysis of Cuba’s aborted economic reforms o
In 2002, in response to the country's growing economic crisis, Cuba's socialist government began a massive "restructuring" process, drastically shrinking the industry to cut costs. Eighteen internatio
