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HANDBOOK OF CONTEMPORARY CUBA

ECONOMY, POLITICS, CIVIL SOCIETY, AND GLOBALIZATION

HANDBOOK OF CONTEMPORARY CUBA

ECONOMY, POLITICS, CIVIL SOCIETY, AND GLOBALIZATION

Edited by

Mauricio A. Font and Carlos Riob

First published 2013 by Paradigm Publishers

Published 2016 by Routledge

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Handbook of contemporary Cuba : economy, politics, civil society, and globalization / Mauricio A. Font and Carlos Riob, editors.

pages cm. (Paradigm handbooks)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-61205-225-0 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-31563-423-4 (eBook)

1. CubaPolitics and government1990- 2. CubaEconomic conditions1990- 3. CubaSocial conditions1990- I. Font, Mauricio A. (Mauricio Augusto) II. Riob, Carlos, 1968

F1788.H278 2013

972.9107dc23

201300221

Designed and Typeset by Straight Creek Bookmakers.

ISBN 13: 978-1-61205-225-0 (hbk)
ISBN 13: 978-1-61205-234-2 (pbk)

CONTENTS

Mauricio A. Font

Mauricio A. Font

Mauricio A. Font

Omar Everleny Prez Villanueva

Archibald R. M. Ritter

Camila Pieiro Harnecker

Pavel Vidal Alejandro

Armando Nova Gonzlez

Mario A. Gonzlez-Corzo

Hilary Becker

Alberto Gabriele

Emily Morris

Carlos Riob

Carlos Alzugaray and Armando Chaguaceda Noriega

Yvon Grenier

Margaret E. Crahan

Robert A. Portada III

Miguel Barnet

Zoya Kocur

Amparo Snchez Cobos

Jorge Luis Romeu

Carlos Riob

Mauricio A. Font

Larry Cat Backer

Jos Chofre-Sirvent and Carmen Antn-Guardiola

David Strug

J. R. Paron and Maria P. Aristigueta

Mauricio A. Font

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1868	Ten Years War of Independence begins (18681878)
1886	Slavery is abolished
1895	Second War of Independence begins (18951898)
1898	Spanish-American War begins
1902	Spanish-American War ends with Cuban independence from Spain: Cuba is under US protection (Platt Amendment); Toms Estrada Palma elected president
1903	Cuban-American Treaty signed; United States assumes territorial control over Guantnamo
1906	Toms Estrada Palma resigns; Jos Miguel Gmez leads a rebellion, US occupation
1909	Jos Miguel Gmez is elected president
1912	Black protests against discrimination; US forces return to the island
1924	Gerardo Machado establishes a dictatorship
1933	Fulgencio Batista overthrows Gerardo Machado
1934	Treaty of Relations is signed; United States gives up right to intervene in Cuban affairs
1956	Fidel Castros Granma expedition reaches Cuba
1958	United States withdraws military aid to Fulgencio Batista
1959	Fidel Castro overthrows Fulgencio Batista; agrarian reform law allows expropriation of farmland larger than 1,000 acres, prohibits ownership of sugar plantations by foreigners
1960	Cuba aligns itself with the Soviet Union; trade and cooperation between the two countries commences
1961	Fidel Castro proclaims Cuba a communist state; US trade embargo on Cuba is put in place; Bay of Pigs invasion occurs
1962	Cuban missile crisis occurs
1963	Second agrarian reform is enacted: farmsteads are nationalized; small peasants are allowed to form Agricultural Productions Cooperatives (Cooperativas de Produccin Agropecuaria; CPAs)
1965	Communist Party of Cuba (Partido Comunista de Cuba; PCC) is founded
1969	Government enacts mobilization to produce 10 million tons of sugar in the 1970 harvest
1972	Cuba joins the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA)
1975	Cuban forces are sent to Angola; First PCC Congress: socialist constitution is adopted
1976	Fidel Castro formally becomes president
1980	Second PCC Congress: reaffirmation of Cubas ties with the USSR
1986	Third PCC Congress: rectification campaign; Cuban Catholic Church organizes conference
1990	Third agrarian reform: Basic Units of Cooperative Production (UBPCs) are formed; farming on a small scale is allowed
1991	Dissolution of the Soviet Union disrupts Cuba-Soviet relations; Fourth PCC Congress takes place; the austerity measures of the Special Period are put in place

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