ABSTRACT
For three decades after the early 1960s, Cuba’s command economy became progressively integrated into the socialist international economy. The island’s trade was done through barter arrangements in the context of bilateral economic agreements and the attempt by the socialist camp to organize a multilateral challenge to international capitalism. 1 The highly centralized and planned Cuban economy specialized in the context of the Soviet-based international socialist economy. It is thus difficult to exaggerate the impact on Cuba of the latter’s demise.
