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Former Commerce Secretary Speaks at ICCAS


The University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies began its series of lectures for the 2012-2013 academic year on August 10 when former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez spoke at “The 2012 Elections: What to Expect.” Gutierrez is a nonresident scholar at ICCAS, which co-hosted the lecture along with the UM Libraries’ Cuban Heritage Collection.

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Former Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez to Speak on ‘The 2012 Elections: What to Expect’


Carlos M. Gutierrez, secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce and co-chair of the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba in the George W. Bush administration, will speak on “The 2012 Elections: What to Expect” on Friday, August 10 at 7 p.m. at Casa Bacardi, 1531 Brescia Avenue, on UM’s Coral Gables campus. A reception begins at 6:30 p.m.

The Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies and the University of Miami Libraries’ Cuban Heritage Collection are presenting the event, which will be moderated by Jaime Suchlicki, ICCAS director and Emilio Bacardi Moreau Distinguished Professor of History.

The event is open to the public. Reservations are strongly recommended. To RSVP call 305-284-CUBA (2822).

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Iran Hot Topic of Discussion at Bolton Lecture

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Iran Hot Topic of Discussion at Bolton Lecture


Former UN Ambassador John R. Bolton, speaking to an audience at the University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies last Friday, reiterated his assertion that sanctions against Iran are not the answer to getting the country to abandon what many believe are attempts to develop a nuclear weapons program. Bolton also addressed other topics during a lecture titled “Challenges to the U.S.: Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela.”

His comments came as a team of inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency prepared to travel to Iran to probe allegations that the country is laying the groundwork to build a nuclear weapon. Iran has denied the charges, saying its uranium enrichment program is for peaceful purposes.

Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced Bolton at last Friday’s lecture, co-hosted by ICCAS and UM’s Cuban Heritage Collection and made possible by the Goizueta Family Foundation.

 

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Yale Scholar Details His Struggle Against Lies about Cuba

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Yale Scholar Details His Struggle Against Lies about Cuba


Carlos M. N. Eire spoke to more than 250 people at UM's Newman Alumni Center, discussing his childhood and dispelling beliefs that repression and human rights violations no longer exist in Cuba.

Airlifted out of Cuba nearly 50 years ago to escape Fidel Castro’s regime, Yale University scholar Carlos M. N. Eire still remembers the insults he endured as a little boy attending school in Miami, including being asked by classmates if he used a toilet in his native country.

Even as Eire grew older, misconceptions about Cuba persisted, and today he, along with thousands of other Cuban exiles, continue a struggle to dispel beliefs that oppression and human rights violations are nonexistent on the island. Read the full story

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A discussion on U.S.-Cuba relations

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A discussion on U.S.-Cuba relations


With Cuba recently announcing upcoming layoffs for some 500,000 state employees and former Cuban leader Fidel Castro making remarks that his country’s economic model is broken, a group of prominent experts gathered Monday on the University of Miami’s Coral Gables campus to offer their take on U.S.-Cuba relations. The event, “American Ambassadors in Conference: U.S. Policy toward Cuba,” was hosted by UM’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies (ICCAS) and the Cuban Heritage Collection of the UM Libraries.

Panelists included, from left, Otto Reich, president of Otto Reich Associates, LLC, of Washington, D.C., who served as U.S. ambassador to Venezuela from 1986 to 1989; Luis Lauredo, an international and governmental relations consultant and former U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States; James Cason, president of Center for a Free Cuba and a former ambassador to Paraguay; and Jaime Suchlicki, director of ICCAS and Emilio Bacardi Moreau Professor of History at UM.

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