CTP News

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).

ICCAS' Cuba Business Roundtable held its quarterly telephone Cuba Conference Call. Jaime Suchlicki, Director, ICCAS and José Azel, Senior Research Associate at ICCAS, discussed "Potential Changes in U.S.-Cuba Policy under the New Administration."

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.

Organizational Charts of Cuba's political structure, including the National Assembly, the Communist Party, Ministry of the Interior (MININT), the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (MINFAR) and state organizations and enterprises have been updated after the recent governmental position changes.

To view, please visit our website, http://ctp.iccas.miami.edu/main.htm, and click on "Organizational Charts."

The third issue of Enfoque Economico, "La reforma salarial en Cuba un año después," CTP's monthly short, analytical reports written by Prof. Mario Gonzalez-Corzo, was sent recently to a list of Cuban dissident and government economists in the island. We have received positive feedback from the recipients.

ICCAS will be hosting a documentary/discussion, “The Failure of the Bay of Pigs,” with panelists Javier Souto, Esteban Bovo Caras, Juan Cosculluela, Maximo Cruz, Felix Rodriguez Mendigutia, and Ramon E. “Ray” de Arrigunaga as moderator.

Date/Time: Thursday, April 16, 2009
7:00 pm Showing of the Documentary “Brigade 2506” (in English) produced by Eduardo Palmer
8:00 p.m. Panel Discussion

Location: Casa Bacardi
University of Miami
1531 Brescia Avenue, Coral Gables, Fl

RSVP: (305) 284-CUBA (2822).
Free and open to the public. Seating capacity limited.

A new issue of Cuba Facts, "Afro-Cubans: Powerless Majority in Their Own Country," click here to view, is now available at the CTP website.

The new issue of Cuban Affairs, the quarterly electronic journal of ICCAS, includes the following articles:

Miami Dade’s Cuban-American Voters in the 2008 Election
Benjamin G. Bishin, Feryal M. Cherif, Andy S. Gomez, Casey Klofstad

Cuba After Castro: Potential Impact on the International Crime Environment
Rafael Fermoselle

The Sources of Cuban Official Conduct
Néstor Enrique Cruz

Russia-Cuba Relations
Leopoldo Fornés-Bonavía Dolz

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.