Abstract

LAGUARDIA MARTINEZ, Jacqueline. Cuba's changing environment. Impacts on the Cuba - CARICOM relationship. memorias [online]. 2015, n.25, pp.242-258. ISSN 1794-8886.  https://doi.org/10.14482/memor.25.L6723.

In 2011 Cuba approved a new economic policy with the purpose of re-launching its economy while preserving the main social achievements of the socialist model. The bet is high enough to raise doubts and questions around the success of such a major economic transformation. The reality is that, in spite of fears and resistances against the "updating" of the Cuban economic model, domestic changes are mandatory in order to build up a prosper and sustainable socialism, idea that President Raúl Castro has promoted as the core and key goal of the socioeconomic changes. The paper explores the current relations of Cuba and the CARICOM countries as well as the expected changes this relationship may undergo in the near future as a result of Cuban economic updating.

Keywords : Cuba; CARICOM; foreign policy; cooperation.

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