The economic history of Cuba
  
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	The history in general of Cuba
             
 
  
     
	 
 	Documents for the history of agriculture
		in Cuba
     
     
	 
 	Documents for the history of the environment
		of Cuba
     
     
	 
 	Documents for the Helms-Burton restraint 
		on Cuban trade
     
   
 
The economic history in general of Cuba
     - Contrast Cuba with the Americas
 
          - Editorial from the Militant. 1995. Cuba has begun
	       to recover from the collapse of its preferential trade with the
	       USSR, and is in a better position to weather the economic
	       crisis gripping the Americas.
 
	       
     - Cuba fights to defend socialism
 
          - By Jim Genova in the People's Weekly World, 26 August 1995.
	       The policies needed to survive both the blockade and loss of trade
	       relations with the USSR, in which social needs take precedence.
 
	       
     - Cuba is fighting its way back despite the odds
	  
 
          - By Cord MacGuire, in People's Weekly World, 30 September
	       1995. Political and economic progress.
      
  
     - Interview with Louis O. Galvez Tauper, director of Cuban
	  Institute for the Research of Sugar Cane By-products
 
          - By Roberto Jorquera, Green Left Weekly, 29 October 1995. The
	       state of the Cuban economy; unemployment; legislative changes in September
	       with regard to foreign investment.
 
     - Cuba today: Congresspeople, capitalism, pastors &
	  pianos
 
          - Weekly News Update on the Americas Supplement, 28 January 1996.
	       Fidel Castro goes to Vietnam and Cuba to study capitalism. Free market
	       reforms continue.
 
     - Cuba's sweet smell of success
 
          - By Tim Wheeler, People's Weekly World, 18 January 1997.
	       A tour of the Suchel-Camacho costmetics factory. Repetitive stress
	       syndrome. This modern, highly efficient factory in the Havana suburbs
	       is an example of the "Si, se puede" spirit of Cuba's workers
	       who have were turned the Cuban economy around.
 
     - Prospects for the Cuban Revolution in the Post-Communist
	  Era
 
          - Paper by Dr. George Lambie, University of Wolverhampton, 8 October
	       1997. Perhaps no other country in peacetime this century has suffered 
		such a dramatic and sudden downturn in its economy as Cuba. In 1991 
		the Cuban government launched the "Special
	       Period in Peacetime", and the strategy has done an
	       outstanding job to rescue the Cuban economy from total collapse and the
	       measures that have been taken so far have in the main been essential
	       and unavoidable. 
 
	       
  
The history of capital investment in Cuba
     - Capitalism will never return to Cuba
 
          - By Manini Chatterjee, in People's Democracy, newspaper
	       of the Communist Party of India, 24 September 1995.
 
	       
     - Cuban Economic Progress
 
          - From Granma News, 8 October 1995. Measures to further
	       encourage investment by foreign capital.
 
	       
     - Cuba Foreign Investment Act
 
          - By J. Clancy, 11 November 1995. The introduction to the controversial
	       Foreign Investment Act.
              
  
 
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