Perspectives from Havana: Do Cuba-US relations have a future? Estéban Morales

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Fifth and last of a series. 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?

Estéban 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 a 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.

Morales was interviewed by Merri Ansara in Havana and Gloria Caballero in Holyoke, MA.

Cosponsors: Saving Lives Campaign, US-Cuba Normalization Coalition, National Network on Cuba, Canadian Network on Cuba, Code Pink, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy & Socialism, Global Health Partners, July 26 Coalition Boston, Latin American Working Group, US Peace Council, US Women & Cuba Collaboration, Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom, Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance, Solidarity Collective, Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba (VCSC), Friends of Cuba Against the U.S. Blockade – Vancouver, Greater Hartford Cuba Solidarity Committee, IFCO/Pastors for Peace.

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