La COVID-19 en Cuba y sus Consecuencias en la Etapa de Post-Pandemia

Abstract

Ante los desafíos que presenta la pandemia de la COVID-19 en Cuba en los sectores de la salud, la economía, la sociedad civil, la cultura y la política se proponen estrategias y políticas públicas para enfrentar el desarrollo de la pandemia y sus consecuencias en la etapa de la post-pandemia. Tras describir el desarrollo de la COVID-19 en Cuba; se realizan propuestas en el sector de la salud, la economía, el cambio de época en la isla y en el campo de los laboratorios de pensamiento y la creación de comunidades de think tanks para idear, prever y buscar soluciones a través de una colaboración sistemática.

Commodifying Havana? Private accumulation, assetisation and marketisation in the Cuban metropolis

“…First, after the ‘good years’ of political rapprochement with Obama’s America, the Trump and Biden administrations re-introduced several sanctions to Cuba, including the blocking of international dollar remittances, international payments and travel (Mesa-Lago and Vidal, 2019). Second, the pandemic and subsequent decline of international tourism contributed to an economic crisis (Acosta et al, 2020) which undermined property transactions and other businesses of leisure. From 2019 to 2020, Cuba’s GDP declined a staggering 11% (Acosta et al, 2020) and market revenue of Airbnb rentals went down from an all-time high of 247 million in March 2019 to a low of 9 million in September 2020, indicating a drop of 96.4% in international tourism (AirDNA, 2021).…”

“…Second, the pandemic and subsequent decline of international tourism contributed to an economic crisis (Acosta et al, 2020) which undermined property transactions and other businesses of leisure. From 2019 to 2020, Cuba’s GDP declined a staggering 11% (Acosta et al, 2020) and market revenue of Airbnb rentals went down from an all-time high of 247 million in March 2019 to a low of 9 million in September 2020, indicating a drop of 96.4% in international tourism (AirDNA, 2021). Even tourism from destinations like Canada, Europe and Latin America declined drastically.…”

“…Following the legalisation of ‘free’ market sales in 2011, a local property boom emerged where Cuban nationals, émigrés and some foreign investors funded housing acquisitions and converted Havana properties into private hotels, restaurants and short-term rentals (Jolivet and Alba-Carmichael, 2021; Wijburg et al, 2021). Nevertheless, due to reliance on tourism, lack of a stable currency and complex interactions between Cuban authorities and property-owning private entrepreneurs (Acosta et al, 2020), Havana’s foundation of urban commodification remains fragile and weak. Thus, by exploring the limits to Havana’s local market institutions, the paper first contributes to ongoing debates on the incomplete and contested nature of urban commodification in the Global North and South (Kaltenbrunner and Karacimen, 2016; Kutz, 2018; Obeng-Odoom, 2022), and more specifically to urban scholarship on transnational capital mobility in Latin American, Caribbean, socialist or post-socialist cities (McTarnaghan et al, 2016; Pósfai et al, 2017).…”

Cuba en cuarentena: imágenes de precariedad y vulnerabilidad durante la pandemia de covid-19

“…"Yo hasta me enfermé de polineuritis en los 90", emuló otra que llevaba a su nieto pequeño tomado de la mano, sin tapaboca alguno. "Los cubanos tenemos anticuerpos especiales", repitió al menos tres veces la señora antes de lograr alcanzar el pan del racionamiento (Sánchez, 2020).…”