| 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).
DISCUSSION
ON CUBA'S MILITARY
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The Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies (ICCAS)
will be hosting a panel discussion, "Los Militares
y el Futuro de Cuba." Panelists include Alcibiades
Hidalgo, former Cuban Ambassador to the United Nations and former
secretary of Gen. Raul Castro; Roberto Hernandez del Llano,
former MININT official; and Roberto Ortega, former FAR colonel
and head of the FAR medical team.
Date: Friday, September 4, 2009
7:00 p.m.
Location: Casa Bacardi
University of Miami
1531 Brescia Avenue, Coral Gables, FL
Cost: $15.00.
Discussion will be in Spanish. To reserve, please call (305)
284-CUBA (2822). Seating capacity is limited.
The sixth issue of Enfoque Economico,
"Entrega de tierras en usufructo en Cuba:
Privatización agrícola o un paso hacia el 'socialismo
de mercado'?" (Transfers of Non-Productive State-Owned
Lands to Private Producers in Cuba: Agricultural Privatization
or a Step towards Market Socialism?) CTP's monthly short,
analytical reports written by ICCAS Research Associate Mario
Gonzalez-Corzo, was sent recently to a list of Cuban dissident
and government economists in the island as well as to the CTP
electronic Cuba list. This and previous issues of Enfoque
Economico can be seen in the CTP website.
A new issue of Cuba Focus, "Negotiating
with Cuba,"
click here to view, is now available at the CTP website.
The next
issue of Cuban Affairs, the quarterly
electronic journal of ICCAS, will include the following articles:
Cuban Days: The Inscrutable Nation
Tom Gjelten
Castro, Drug Trafficking and U.S.-Cuban Relations
Rensselaer Lee
The Political Will to Democratize in Cuba: An Implication
for U.S. Policy
Roger R. Betancourt and Jorge A. Sanguinetty
Transfers of Non-Productive State-Owned Lands to Private
Producers in Cuba: Agricultural Privatization or a Step towards
Market Socialism?
Mario A. González-Corzo
Book reviews and a chronology of recent events in Cuba will
also be included.
The cost of the journal is $25 for a year’s subscription
to individuals. Institutional subscriptions are $95. 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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