| 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 Anti-Defamation League, in association with
the University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American
Studies (ICCAS), the Center for Hemispheric Policy, and the
Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies
will host a panel discussion, The Influence of Iran in Latin
America: The Venezuelan and Cuban Connection.
Panelists include:
Carlos Alberto Montaner, renowned journalist;
Patrick Clawson, Deputy Director for research
at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and author
of Eternal Iran: Continuity and Chaos; and José
Azel, Senior Research Associate at ICCAS.
The discussion will be moderated by Jaime Suchlicki,
Director, ICCAS.
Date/Time: Monday, March 17,
2008
7:30-9:30 p.m. (Registration starts at 7:00)
Location: Bill Cosford Cinema-
5100 Brunson Drive
Memorial Building (2nd Floor)
University of Miami
Coral Gables, Florida 33146
Please RSVP by March 12, 2008 to rsvpflorida@adl.org
or (561) 988-2916.
ICCAS recently hosted the visits of Trinidad Jimenez,
Head, International Department, Spanish Foreign Ministry; Daniel
Parfait, Director, Latin America and the Caribbean, France Foreign
Ministry; and Per Norstrom, Director, Department of the Americas,
Swedish Foreign Ministry. These important foreign dignitaries
were briefed about events in Cuba and prospects for future change.
New issues of Cuba Focus, "Labor
Conditions in Cuba and the Social Responsibility of Foreign
Investors" (click
here), "Investing in Post-Castro Cuba: Are Cuban-Americans
the 'Ace in the Hole'?" (click
here), "Rapid Succession, Slow Transition in Cuba"
(click
here), and "It’s Party Time" (click
here) are now available at our website.
On Tuesday February 26th, the Cuba Business
Roundtable held its first telephone Cuba Conference
Call (CCC) with a timely analysis of recent Cuban events by
Drs. Jaime Suchlicki, Brian Latell, Andy Gomez, and José
Azel of the University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban
and Cuban-American Studies. If you were unable to participate
in this conference call, the audio is now available on our website,
please
click here. The Cuba Conference Call will be offered quarterly
by ICCAS.
The current issue of Cuban Affairs, the quarterly electronic
journal of ICCAS, includes the following articles:
Cuban-Americans
and Foreign Direct Investments in Post-Castro Cuba: “An
Ace in the Hole”
José Azel
Civil Society in Cuba: Advancing through Moral Convictions
and Public Connectedness
Maria del Pilar Aristigueta
The Rise and Fall of Private Foreign Investment in
Cuba
Jorge F. Pérez-López
Racism in Black and White: A Cuban Perspective
Víctor Manuel Domínguez García
Book reviews and a chronology
of recent events in Cuba are also included.
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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