The Special Relationship and the Challenge of Export Diversification: Cuban Exports of Fruits and Vegetables to the United States, 1900 to 1962

Deere, Carmen Diana

doi:10.1353/cub.2019.0012

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“…Juceplan tried to introduce market mechanisms in some sectors of the economy where the low development of the productive forces was most visible; where the inefficiencies of the Stalinist model were most concentrated; and where Juceplan could intervene without needing to mobilize great amounts of resources. The most daring of such attempts was undoubtedly the introduction of the peasant free market (mlc) (Deere, Meurs and Pérez, 1991;Deere and Meurs, 1990;Rosenberg, 1992). Although Castro considered the State farm (granja) the superior form of production in the agricultural sector, these State companies -which were larger on the average than their counterparts in the USSR (the Sovkhoz)-were very unproductive.…”

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Soviet Subsidy and Voluntarism: The Economic Anomalies of Revolutionary Cuba

Sovilla

2023

Am. Lat. Hist. Econ

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The article analyzes the Cuban economy from 960 until the fall of the Soviet Union. It shows that after abolishing private ownership of the means of production at the beginning of the revolutionary period, Cuba could not establish a planning system because of Fidel Castro’s widespread intervention. The economic consequences were grave. Only the enormous economic aid received from the Soviet Union ensured the survival of the Cuban revolution and the implementation of the System of Direction and Planning of the Economy (SDPE), which was successively dismantled during the rectification process. What happened in Cuba during this period seems to have been an endemic problem of its political system, in which there was no effective counterweight to the comandante en jefe, on whom all major political and economic decisions depended. That problem was the main reason for Cuba’s poor economic performance.

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confidence: 99%