On August 1-3, 2013, the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE) held its 23rd annual conference at Miami’s Downtown Hilton under the theme “Reforming Cuba?” The board of directors chose this theme as we felt it would allow us— together with the many diverse participants at this year’s gathering – the ability […]
2012 Preface
This 22nd Volume of Cuba in Transition contains the Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE), held on August 2–4, 2012 at the Hilton Downtown Hotel in Miami, Florida. The conference theme, “Where Is Cuba Going?,” was intended as a challenge to conference participants to reflect […]
A Bloggers’ Polemic: Debating Independent Cuban Blogger Projects in a Polarized Political Context
Notes1 Based on more than 20 in-depth interviews with the principal members of Cuba’s four most prominent blogger “collectives,” Voces Cubanas, Havana Times, Bloggers Cuba, and La Joven Cuba, this paper attempts to draw a preliminary thematic map of Cuba’s emergent “blogosphere.”2 Although each of these projects has its own unique history and personality, level […]
The Internet and Emergent Blogosphere in Cuba: Downloading Democracy, Booting Up Development, or Planting the Virus of Dissidence and Destabilization?
On February 24, 2010, Yoani Sánchez, the wellknown Cuban blogger and cyber-activist, was briefly detained (together with her sister) by state security agents in order to prevent them from signing a book of condolences at a service for the hunger striker Orlando Zapata Tamayo who had died the previous day. Not one to easily be […]
Desde Cuba con Yoani Sánchez: animando el periodismo ciudadano digital y desafiando la violencia verbal
Notes1 Yoani Sánchez nació en La Habana en el año 1975. Como cuenta en la página principal de su Blog, Generación Y, estudió durante dos cursos en el Instituto Pedagógico “Enrique José Varona” la especialidad de Español y Literatura. En el año 1995, se trasladó a la Facultad de Artes y Letras de la Universidad […]