| 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).
TELECONFERENCES
WITH CUBA
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The CTP continues to hold periodic video teleconferences
with Cuba to help those in the island prepare for a future transition.
Students from the Cuban summer program at UM, directed by Dr.
Andy Gomez, Assistant Provost and Senior Fellow at ICCAS, held
an extended exchange with Cuban youths, some of them expelled
from the university for their roles in the opposition. In their
conversation, they explored how to develop civil society and
its role in Cuba's future.
ICCAS held an additional teleconference between
Antonio Jorge, Senior Research Scholar at ICCAS, and Oscar Espinosa
Chepe, Cuban dissident and independent economist.
Also, another teleconference was held between Dr.
Luis Alberto Lacalle, former president of Uruguay, and Cuban
dissident Jorge Luís García Pérez “Antúnez.”
| RULE
OF LAW IN LATIN AMERICA |
ICCAS held a panel discussion, "Cambios
Políticos y el Estado de Derecho en América Latina,"
on June 26, 2008. Panelists included Amb. Manuel Rocha;
Amb. Roger Noriega; Amb. Cris Arcos;
and two prominent Venezuelan attorneys, Yuri López
Pérez and Patricia Andrade;
Jaime Suchlicki moderated the seminar.
A video of this event is now available on the ICCAS
website, http://www6.miami.edu/iccas/iccas.htm,
under "Project/Proyecto Cuba-Venezuela."
On Thursday, June 26, 2008, ICCAS' Cuba Business
Roundtable held its quarterly telephone Cuba Conference Call.
Jaime Suchlicki, Director, ICCAS; José
Azel, Senior Research Associate at ICCAS; and special
guest Mr. Sergio Pino, President of Century
Homebuilders, LLC, one of the largest Hispanic homebuilding
companies in the country, 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.
On July 1, Jaime Suchlicki was interviewed on BBC
World Service on Cuba and U.S. Policy toward Cuba. To listen,
please click
here.
A new issue of Cuba Focus,
"In Cuba’s Future: Democracy or Kleptocracy?"
is now available at the CTP website, click
here to view.
The new issue of Cuban Affairs, the quarterly electronic
journal of ICCAS, includes the following articles:
Cuba
Policy Recommendations: Here We Go Again
Everett Ellis Briggs
Mi Vida: The Manichean Face of Dictatorship
Irving Horowitz
Interpreting Raul Castro’s Economic Measures
Jorge Sanguinetty
The Cuban Economy: Recent Evolution, Principal Economic
Challenges, and the Road Ahead
Mario Gonzalez-Corzo
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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