The New Cuban Private Sector: Changes to the Cuban Labor Code and its Unintended Consequences
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 […]