1. Quoted by K. Cole, Cuba from Revolution to Development (London and Washington: Pinter, 1998), p. 54. At the time of writing, Lage was Vice President of the Council of State with special responsibility for the economy.
2. M. Azicri, Cuba Today and Tomorrow: Reinventing Socialism (Gainesville, Fla: University Press of Florida, 2000), p. 306.
3. H. Dilla, ‘The Virtues and Misfortunes of Civil Society’, NACLA Report on the Americas, XXX11:5 (March/April 1999), 36.
4. P. Schwab, Cuba. Confronting the US Embargo (Basingstoke: Macmillan — now Palgrave Macmillan, 1999), pp. 93–5.
5. A. Aitsiselme, ‘Despite U. S. Embargo Cuban Biotech Booms’, NACLA Report on the Americas, XXXV: 5 (March/April 2002), 38–9.