Disavowal / Retraction The Editorial Board of the Anuario de Estudios Americanos, in application of the guidelines established by the Guide to Good Practices of Editorial CSIC and the recommendations of the international editorial ethics committees, has decided to proceed with the formal disavowal of the following article : Aguilera Manzano, José María: “The Cuban Revolution and Historiography”, Yearbook of American Studies, vol. 65, no. 1, Seville, January-June 2008, pp. 297-320, DOI: http://doi.org/10.3989/aeamer.2008.v65.i1.106 This article contains numerous paragraphs that are reproduced verbatim (with slight wording changes on a few occasions), without quotation marks or citations. , from the following text: Piqueras Arenas, José Antonio: "Introduction: Contextualization essay of the latest Cuban historiography", in Piqueras Arenas, José A. (ed.), Ten new views of the History of Cuba, Castelló de la Plana, Publications of the Universitat Jaume I, 1998, pp. 9-39. (The reproduced paragraphs, which add up to no less than fourteen pages of the unauthorized article, correspond to pp. 10-24 and 28-32 of this text). Likewise, the existence of paragraphs that are literal reproduction, without quotation marks or citing, of other authors has been detected. Among them (without ruling out that there may be more cases) the following: Hernán Venegas (“America in Cuban historiography, 1832-1940”, Islas, 132, 2002, 69-79; texts on pages 74-75 reproduced on p. 297 -298 of the unauthorized article); Elíades Acosta (“What do biographical studies contribute to current Cuban historiography?”, in Hibay, Denise A. (ed.), Trends and Traditions in Latin American and Caribbean History, Papers of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, SALALM Secretariat, USA, 2005, 77-84; texts by p. 81-82 reproduced on p. 317-318) and Mildred de la Torre Molina (“The new look at Cuban historiography”, http://www.archivocubano.org/delatorre.html [accessed February 6, 2017], paragraphs reproduced on p. 317-318 ). The Yearbook of American Studies apologizes to its readers and to authors whose works have been misused and will do everything possible to prevent similar situations from occurring in the future. The Editorial Board will not consider possible replies, counter-replies or comments to this editorial decision. This editorial note is incorporated into the electronic version of the unauthorized article and will be published in the next print issue of the journal (Yearbook of American Studies, 74, 1, Jan.-June 2017). Seville, February 6, 2017
