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Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know (event!)

CFR photoDr. Julia Sweig, the Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin American Studies and Director for Latin American Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, will be at a Foreign Policy Association-sponsored event on January 13, 2010 at Grupo Santander, speaking on her recently published book, Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know.

We’ve referred to Dr. Sweig before on this blog, once to briefly discuss this particular book, and once to talk about her excellent Washington Post called, “Don’t just close Gitmo: Give it back.

See her speak! She is an expert on Cuba and has the rare ability to make an intelligent, rational argument on a topic that is so often emotionally and politically charged.

Location: Grupo Santander, 45 E. 53rd St. (between Park and Madison Avenues), NYC

Time: Registration at 5:30 PM, lecture at 6 PM. Book signing to follow.

Admission: FPA members—free; guest of FPA member—$15; OTR patron—$15; Non-member—$25; student—$5.

(Photo of Julia Sweig from Council on Foreign Relations website)

 

Author

Melissa Lockhart Fortner

Melissa Lockhart Fortner is Senior External Affairs Officer at the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles, having served previously as Senior Programs Officer for the Council. From 2007-2009, she held a research position at the University of Southern California (USC) School of International Relations, where she closely followed economic and political developments in Mexico and in Cuba, and analyzed broader Latin American trends. Her research considered the rise and relative successes of Latin American multinationals (multilatinas); economic, social and political changes in Central America since the civil wars in the region; and Wal-Mart’s role in Latin America, among other topics. Melissa is a graduate of Pomona College, and currently resides in Pasadena, California, with her husband, Jeff Fortner.

Follow her on Twitter @LockhartFortner.