5th Floor Conference Room
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
9:15 AM – 12:30 PM
in cooperation with the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson Center, the Caribbean Studies Association
With recent leadership changes in Cuba and the inauguration of a new President in the United States, change in U.S. policy toward Cuba appears likely. As Cuba’s leadership under Raúl Castro has been cautiously opening up civil society, reaching out to the international community, and attempting to strengthen its economic base, the political climate in Washington has perhaps never been more propitious for a review of U.S.-Cuba relations. On Nvember 16, 2009 the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholares and the Heinrich Böll Stiftung North America invited to a public discussion to address these issues.
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Agenda:
9:15 AM Opening remarks
Cynthia Arnson, Director, Latin American Program
9:25 AM Europe and Cuba
Anna Ayuso, Fundación CIDOB, Barcelona
Karl Buck, Council of the European Union
Stephen Wilkinson, London Metropolitan University
Comments: Ambassador John Maisto
10:40 AM Break
10:55 AM The Western Hemisphere and Cuba
Bisa Williams, U.S. Department of State (invited)
Carlo Dade, President, FOCAL (Canadian Foundation for the Americas)
Jorge Heine, CIGI and Wilfrid Laurier University
Dan Fisk, International Republican Institute
Comments: Susanne Gratius, FRIDE, Madrid
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