Escribe: A Poem

Look! What a beautiful day it is outside. Sunshine came and shamed the blossoms then came rain to wash away his anger then came the moon to put them all to sleep then came the stars on the washed black sky.   And what did you do? my dear senorita? What did you do senor? … Read more

What a Little Liberty Can Do: A Comparative Analysis of the Nicaraguan and Cuban Land Reform Programs

Abstract This paper discusses the land and agrarian reform programs in Cuba and Nicaragua and investigates their success in achieving their proposed goals. It argues that the Cuban Castro government went too far in breaking clientelist oligopolies and ended up erecting state monopolies as an end result which generated a food shortage in the domestic … Read more