Read online: Hemisphere #17

Published twice a year by the Latin American and Caribbean Center at FIU, Hemisphere is dedicated to provoking debate on the challenges and achievements of the Americas. Edited by CRI Director Damián Fernández, the latest edition challenges the traditional perspective that Cuba is frozen in time, and examines how a new Cuba has emerged following the collapse of the Soviet Union, 15 years of the Special Period, and significant demographic changes. This new Cuba has become even clearer with the recent transfer of power to Raul Castro.

The issue contains the following articles:

"Change from Below"	Katrin Hansing
"The New Politics of Opposition"	Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat
"Cuba and China"	Daniel P. Erikson and Adam Minson
"Young Blood"	Frank Mora
"Poverty and Inequality in Cuba"	Lorena Barberia
"Cuba's New Daddy"	Javier Corrales
"The End of Rationing"	Carmelo Mesa-Lago