BY CHRISTOPHER PALAMO – Beginning in 2010, Cuba began passing a series of legislation targeted at modernizing the country’s socialist economic model. Specifically, the legislations were changes to the Cuban Labor Code, which loosened the regulation on trabajo por cuenta propia[1] (self-employment). The changes, while viewed by some as only gradual legislative efforts[2], are symbolic […]
BY MELISSA JORDON – The United States placed an embargo on Cuba in 1961. Over half a century later, on December 17, 2014, President Barack Obama ordered diplomatic relations be opened with Cuba as a result of a prisoner exchange negotiated with Raúl Castro and mediated by Pope Francis.[1] The executive order from the White House […]
BY TRIET LEMINH – On Tuesday, October 28, 2014, the United Nations General Assembly will try yet again to urge the United States to end the 52-year-old trade embargo against its Caribbean neighbor. Amid strong opposition in the assembly, with last year’s vote at 188-2[1], the United States looks to remain steadfast in keeping the embargo. […]
