SCOTT B. MacDONALD is an International Economic Advisor at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Trinidad and Tobago: Democracy and Development in the Caribbean, Dancing on a Volcano: The Latin American Drug Trade and Mountain High, White Avalanche: Cocaine and Power in the American States and Panama (Praeger, 1986, 1988, and 1989, respectively). He has written articles for Times of the Americas, Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs, and SAIS Review.GEORGES A. FAURIOL is Director of Latin American Studies and Coordinator of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is author of Foreign Policy Behavior of Caribbean States: Guyana, Haiti, and Jamaica and co-author of Caribbean Basin Security, The Cuban Revolution: 25 Years Later and Guatemala: The Political Puzzle. He has published numerous articles in such journals as Foreign Affairs.

• Preface Introduction: The Politics of the U.S.--Caribbean Basin Sugar Trade by Scott B. MacDonald and Georges A. Fauriol Bittersweet: U.S. Sugar Import Quotas and the Caribbean Basin by Anthony R. Hemstad The View from Latin America and the Caribbean by Jose Antonio Cerro Cuba's Sugar Economy: Recent Performance and Challenges for the 1990s by Jose F. Alonso and Peter J. Buzzanell Sugar in the Dominican Republic: How Sweet Is It? by Uwe Bott Sugar in the Commonwealth Caribbean by Mark H. Bidus and Daniel J. Seyler Sugar and Central American Development: A Turn of an Unfriendly Card by Scott B. MacDonald Haiti and Panama: The Odd Men Out by Scott B. MacDonald Ethanol as Fuel: An Old Idea in New Tanks by F. Joseph Demetrius Selected Bibliography Index

SCOTT B. MacDONALD is an International Economic Advisor at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Trinidad and Tobago: Democracy and Development in the Caribbean, Dancing on a Volcano: The Latin American Drug Trade and Mountain High, White Avalanche: Cocaine and Power in the American States and Panama (Praeger, 1986, 1988, and 1989, respectively). He has written articles for Times of the Americas, Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs, and SAIS Review.GEORGES A. FAURIOL is Director of Latin American Studies and Coordinator of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is author of Foreign Policy Behavior of Caribbean States: Guyana, Haiti, and Jamaica and co-author of Caribbean Basin Security, The Cuban Revolution: 25 Years Later and Guatemala: The Political Puzzle. He has published numerous articles in such journals as Foreign Affairs.

• Preface Introduction: The Politics of the U.S.--Caribbean Basin Sugar Trade by Scott B. MacDonald and Georges A. Fauriol Bittersweet: U.S. Sugar Import Quotas and the Caribbean Basin by Anthony R. Hemstad The View from Latin America and the Caribbean by Jose Antonio Cerro Cuba's Sugar Economy: Recent Performance and Challenges for the 1990s by Jose F. Alonso and Peter J. Buzzanell Sugar in the Dominican Republic: How Sweet Is It? by Uwe Bott Sugar in the Commonwealth Caribbean by Mark H. Bidus and Daniel J. Seyler Sugar and Central American Development: A Turn of an Unfriendly Card by Scott B. MacDonald Haiti and Panama: The Odd Men Out by Scott B. MacDonald Ethanol as Fuel: An Old Idea in New Tanks by F. Joseph Demetrius Selected Bibliography Index

SCOTT B. MacDONALD is an International Economic Advisor at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Trinidad and Tobago: Democracy and Development in the Caribbean, Dancing on a Volcano: The Latin American Drug Trade and Mountain High, White Avalanche: Cocaine and Power in the American States and Panama (Praeger, 1986, 1988, and 1989, respectively). He has written articles for Times of the Americas, Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs, and SAIS Review.GEORGES A. FAURIOL is Director of Latin American Studies and Coordinator of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is author of Foreign Policy Behavior of Caribbean States: Guyana, Haiti, and Jamaica and co-author of Caribbean Basin Security, The Cuban Revolution: 25 Years Later and Guatemala: The Political Puzzle. He has published numerous articles in such journals as Foreign Affairs.

• Preface Introduction: The Politics of the U.S.--Caribbean Basin Sugar Trade by Scott B. MacDonald and Georges A. Fauriol Bittersweet: U.S. Sugar Import Quotas and the Caribbean Basin by Anthony R. Hemstad The View from Latin America and the Caribbean by Jose Antonio Cerro Cuba's Sugar Economy: Recent Performance and Challenges for the 1990s by Jose F. Alonso and Peter J. Buzzanell Sugar in the Dominican Republic: How Sweet Is It? by Uwe Bott Sugar in the Commonwealth Caribbean by Mark H. Bidus and Daniel J. Seyler Sugar and Central American Development: A Turn of an Unfriendly Card by Scott B. MacDonald Haiti and Panama: The Odd Men Out by Scott B. MacDonald Ethanol as Fuel: An Old Idea in New Tanks by F. Joseph Demetrius Selected Bibliography Index