Fidel Castro - Publications - Faculty & Research

January 2016 (Revised March 2016)
Background Note

The Promise of Agriculture in the Republic of Cuba

By: Jose B. Alvarez, Andrew Otazo and Carin-Isabel Knoop

This background note explains Cuba's past and current agriculture policies, as well as provides insights into its future potential as relations with the U.S. normalize. View Details

Keywords: Cuba; Agribusiness; Agriculture; Errosion; Embargo; Fidel Castro; Raul Castro; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Cuba

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US-Cuban Economic Relations 1898-1959

Rich Sicotte is conducting joint research with Alan Dye (Barnard College, Columbia University) on the evolution of US-Cuban economic relations before the Revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power. Currently they are focusing on the consequences of the Hawley-Smoot... View Details

22 Sep 2017
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The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice

off that there was never a true rematch to go into Cuba and take out Fidel Castro. There were grown men who are trained by the CIA in the 1960s waiting every day to go back and take out Fidel View Details

02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising

halt. In the summer of 1994 alone, more than 30,000 Cubans fled to the United States via boats and makeshift rafts. Faced with these economic realities, Fidel Castro’s government began some private sector experimentation, including... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

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