| Welcome to CTP News, the monthly newsletter of
the Cuba Transition Project (CTP) at the University of Miami's
Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies (ICCAS). The
CTP is funded by a grant from the U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID).
The Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies
(ICCAS) will be hosting a lecture/discussion, “What
the President Didn't Know: Lessons from the Cuban Missile Crisis”
with Michael Dobbs, reporter for The Washington Post.
He will be presenting his most recent book, One Minute to
Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear
War, an hour-by-hour study of the Cuban missile crisis.
Date/Time: Wednesday, November
5, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
Location: Casa Bacardi/Olga-Carlos
Saladrigas Hall
University of Miami, 1531 Brescia Avenue, Coral Gables
Lecture is free and open to the public. Seating capacity is
limited. To reserve, please call (305) 284-2822.
On November 14, 2008, ICCAS will host the presentation
of the book, Death of a Dream, by
Pedro Roig. The discussion will begin at 6:30 p.m. and will
include Carlos Alberto Montaner and Marcos Antonio Ramos as
panelists.
Lecture is free and open to the public. Seating
capacity is limited. To reserve, please call (305) 284-2822.
On Wednesday October 8th, ICCAS' Cuba Business Roundtable
held its quarterly telephone Cuba Conference Call. Jaime Suchlicki,
Director, ICCAS; José Azel, Senior Research Associate
at ICCAS; and special guests Mr. Nicolás Gutiérrez,
Jr. and Mr. Manny Rodriguez participated in the conference call.
Audio of the conference call is now available on our website,
please click
here. The Cuba Conference Call is offered quarterly by ICCAS.
For additional information on this service, please contact:
Vanessa Lopez at (305) 284-2822 or email: cbr.iccas@miami.edu.
A new issue of Cuba Focus,
"Islamic Investment in Cuba: Part II," click
here to view, is now available at the CTP website.
The November
issue of Cuban Affairs, the quarterly electronic journal
of ICCAS, will include an important and timely article written
by Dario Moreno focusing on how Cuban-Americans voted in the
2008 elections.
We invite you to visit the journal's website click
here for more information and/or to subscribe.
The
CTP can be contacted at P.O. Box 248174, Coral Gables, Florida
33124-3010, Tel: 305-284-CUBA (2822), Fax: 305-284-4875, and
by email at ctp.iccas@miami.edu.
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