Cuba: Is this the end?

How is the Díaz-Canel government responding to the profound humanitarian crisis gripping the country? If political change is on the horizon, what form might it take—an internally driven change, external pressure, or a negotiated transition? This panel of experts will explore these and other pressing questions about Cuba’s future.

Speakers:

Dr Emily Morris is a senior research associate in economics at the UCL Institute of the Americas, and Director of CRICKET CIC, a non-profit that facilitates multi-disciplinary research collaboration between the UK and Caribbean. In her previous career she served as a Senior Analyst in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Latin America team, and as a Country Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank. She has been investigating Cuban economic performance and policy since the 1990s.

Dr Christopher Sabatini is senior fellow for Latin America at Chatham House, and was formerly a lecturer at London School of Economics School of Public Policy and at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University. Chris is also on the advisory boards of Harvard University’s LASPAU, the Advisory Committee for Human Rights Watch’s Americas Division and of the Inter-American Foundation.

Dr Helen Yaffe is a professor of Latin American political economy at the University of Glasgow. Since 1995 she has spent time visiting and working in Cuba. She is the author of We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World, and Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution. She has co-produced three documentaries about Cuba, and is co-host of the Cuba Analysis podcast.

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