| 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. On July 22, 2008, a teleconference was held between
Antonio Jorge, Senior Research Scholar at ICCAS, and Oscar Espinosa
Chepe and Marta Beatriz Roque, both Cuban dissidents. They discussed
which economic model Cuba should follow in a transition.
On July 24, 2008, CTP held an additional teleconference
between Oscar Haza, host of A Mano Limpia, a well-known
talk show in the South Florida community, and independent journalists
in the island. In the candid exchange, Haza and eighteen independent
journalists explored the role of media in free societies.
Video of both events are now available on the CTP
website, http://ctp.iccas.miami.edu/main.htm,
under "New/Relevant."
Professor Jaime Suchlicki, Director of the Institute
for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies (ICCAS) spoke at the Western
Hemisphere Affairs roundtable, U.S. Southern Command, on July
16. He discussed with U.S. ambassadors to Latin America “Cuba’s
Current Situation and Prospect for Transition.”
| SOUTH
FLORIDA HUMANITARIAN AID MEETING |
On July 15, 2008 CTP hosted a meeting for the South
Florida Humanitarian Network (SFHN). The SFHN, a group of federal,
state, and local government agencies; non-profit organizations;
and academic institutions, has been meeting since 2004 to analyze
issues and challenges to Florida in the event of a change in
Cuba and to organize resources to prepare for these challenges.
For the recent meeting the topic of discussion was mass migration.
A new issue of Cuba Focus,
"A New Missile Crisis?" is now available
at the CTP website, click
here to view. A new issue of Cuba Facts,
"Exporting to Cuba," click
here to view, is also available at the CTP website.
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 L. 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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