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	<description>Providing an in-depth and focused appraisal of the Cuban “Social Experience”</description>
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		<title>Dupes or not, it is time to stop covert ops in Cuba</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a conservative estimate the U.S. Government has spent at least $390 million since 1996 on trying to subvert the Cuban government by covert means. That is the startling truth if Fulton Armstrong, a senior advisor on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is to be believed.

Armstrong, who had three years’ experience as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s chief investigator into operations run by the State Department and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Cuba and elsewhere in Latin America, has called on the Obama administration to stop wasting money on a hopelessly corrupt and forlorn project.]]></description>
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		<title>Cuba’s New Resolve: Economic Reform and its Implications for U.S. Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington-based Center for Democracy in the Americas  has publised a comprehensive report – Cuba’s New Resolve: Economic Reform and its Implications for U.S. Policy—which reflects what its says it has learned and why it believes it’s important for U.S. policy makers to understand what is unfolding in Cuba at this time.]]></description>
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		<title>A Star is Born? Enter the CELAC</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr Manuel Barcía Paz, senior lecturer at the University of Leeds and a board member of the IISC, has written on the founding of the new Caribbean and Latin American regional organisation: the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, better known by its Spanish acronym CELAC (Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños). Dr Barcía argues that while there have been attempts at regional integration in the past, this time the exclusion of the United States and Canada is a sign that the countries of the South are striking out on a new path towards independence.]]></description>
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		<title>Predicting the future: What will happen over Cuba in 2012?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington based think-tank Inter-American Dialogue published a newsletter on 20 December prediciting the likelihood of further changes in Cuba during 2012.

Among the contributors to the Latin American Advisor was Dr Stephen Wilkinson, Chairman of the IISC. ]]></description>
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		<title>Journal plans special issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Journal of Cuban Studies is planning two special editions and academics and writers are being asked to submit proposals for articles now.

The first special issue will commemorate the October Missile Crisis of 1962 and the second will examine the effects of the Special Period in time of peace on Cuba.]]></description>
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		<title>Searching for Celia: BBC radio focuses on Fidel&#8217;s confidant</title>
		<link>http://cubastudies.org/searching-for-celia-bbc-radio-focuses-on-fidels-confident/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Celia Sanchez was at the heart of Cuba's revolutionary government for over two decades and now BBC radio has uncovered the story of this enigmatic and fascinating woman.

In this Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3, Linda Pressly explores the life and legacy of Celia Sanchez - from small-town beginnings as a doctor's daughter in Oriente, to her pivotal position in Havana. It delves into her associations, professional and personal... What were the mechanics of her everyday relationship with Cuba's maximo leader, Fidel Castro? How profound was her political influence? And what was her contribution to the distinctive revolutionary culture that emerged in Cuba?]]></description>
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		<title>The changes in Cuba &#8211; Cuban author speaks out</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Inter American Dialogue think-tank in Washington DC hosted a discussion on 22 November on the politics of change in Cuba with Rafael Hernández, one of the most influential intellectuals writing about Cuba today and one of the keynote speakers invited to the IISC Conference: Cuba in the 21st century scheduled for April next year.]]></description>
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		<title>Cuban reforms do not threaten socialism, says research</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The reforms currently being undertaken by the Cuban government to increase the non-state sector and introduce market solutions do not threaten the socialist nature of the revolution, according to research published this month in the International Journal of Cuban Studies.

Professor Michael O’Sullivan of Brock University in Ontario, Canada, interviewed Cuban young people about their attitudes to the revolution, socialism and their future following the reforms announced by Cuban President Raúl Castro in 2010 and agreed by the Cuban Communist Party in April this year.]]></description>
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		<title>Fellowship opportunities at University of Miami</title>
		<link>http://cubastudies.org/fellowship-opportunites-at-univeristy-of-miami/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami has announced that it is now accepting applications for the 2012 CHC Fellowships programme funded by The Goizueta Foundation, available to graduate students.

The Cuban Heritage Collection (CHC) Fellowships provide assistance to graduate students who wish to use the research resources available at the Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami. Fellowships are available to graduate students from the United States and abroad. The goal of the CHC Fellowships is to engage emerging scholars with the materials available in the Cuban Heritage Collection and thus contribute to the larger body of scholarship in Cuban, hemispheric, and international studies.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Ripe Fruit&#8217; returns: Gravity is pulling Cuba back to US, says leading Think Tank</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 11:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["Geography dictates that, eventually, Cuba will become fully integrated not only into the global economy but also into the Caribbean Basin. In preparing to take advantage of the widening of the Panama Canal by constructing shipping facilities at Mariel to service the Eastern seaboard of the United States, and by authorizing new golf courses and boat marinas that only American citizens could fully occupy, the Cuban authorities are signaling that they understand the powerful gravitational pull of geography—that Cuba and the United States will, inevitably, once again become economic partners." ]]></description>
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