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Perspectives from Havana in a Year of Covid and Embargo. Economist Estéban Morales (Week 1 of 5)

Perspectives from Havana in a Year of Covid and Embargo – A Series of Weekly Conversations

What has Cuba been like in the past year?
What is like now?
What have been the major challenges and achievements?

Like the rest of the world, Havana and Cuba have just completed the first full year of Covid 19.  It has done so with the full force of the U.S. embargo on its neck, including additional measures enacted by the Trump administration and so far not modified or removed by the Biden administration.  What has Havana been like the past year?  What is it like now? What have been the major challenges and achievements?

CODEPINK is joining Massachusetts Peace Action, Center for Cuban Studies, Latin American Solidarity Coalition of Western Massachusetts and other organizations to explore these and other questions with 5 leading voices from Cuba

All events at 6pm Eastern Time

April 13:  From the Perspective of an Economist – Estéban Morales

Esteban Morales Domínguez is an economist, political scientist, member of the Cuban Academy of Sciences. He founded the Center for Studies on the United States at the University of Havana in 1980 and was director until 1999. He also as served as Director of the Department of Political Economy of the Faculty of Economics, Director of the School of Political Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities. He has been visiting professor at universities in the United States, Europe and Japan, giving or given courses on subjects ranging from Political Economy to International Relations to Race Relations to Cuba-US relations.  He is considered a specialist on race relations in the United States and in Cuba.  He has written numerous books and articles which have been published internationally as well as in Cuba.

He is current or past member of the Cuban Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Economics and Scientific Council or the University of Havana, the advisory councils at the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, the Ministry of Higher Education, the Economic Society of Friends of the Country, the Commissions to Combat Racism and Discrimination at the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba and the Jose Marti National Library and the Scientific Committee of the Slave Route for UNESCO.

April 20   From the Perspective of Science & Healthcare – Luis Montero Cabrera

April 27:  From the Perspective of a Sociologist and Feminist – Marta Nuñez

May 04:  From the Perspective of a Poet and Writer – Nancy Morejón

May 11:  From the Perspective of the Next Generation — David Faya

 

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