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PROGRAM
January 2021 ASCE Virtual Meeting: Caught in a Perfect Storm: Are Havana’s Responses Sufficient? January 4-6, 2021
Monday, January 4, 2021
9:30 – 10:00 am
Opening Remarks
Gary Maybarduk, ASCE President
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10:00 am-12:00 noon
Panel 1: Cuba’s Economic Situation and Strategy
Chair: Carlos Seiglie, Rutgers University
Ernesto Hernández-Catá, “The Misery of Merchandise Exports and the Sustainability of the Cuban Balance of Payments”
Luis Luis, “Cuba: Dollar Crunch, Dollarization and Devaluation”
Jorge Sanguinetty, “Why is Cuba´s Response to the Economic Crisis Insufficient?”
Tamarys L. Bahamonde-Perez, University of Delaware, “Cuba’s Bureaucratic System and the Economic Crisis”
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2:00 pm-4:00 pm
Panel 2: External Relations
Chair: Gary Maybarduk, U.S. Department of State (retired)
Yuri González Hernandez, Havana lawyer and Larry Catá-Backer, Pennsylvania State University, “Follow the Yellow Brick Road: Cuba and China’s Belt and Road Initiative.”
Vadim Grishim, George Washington University, “A Point of No Return: The Ongoing Cuban Crisis in a Historical Framework”
Armando Chaguaceda, Gobierno y Análisis Político AC, “Poder Incisivo y Tecnología Política: presencia e imagen cubana en la academia latinoamericanista”
Larry Catá Backer, Pennsylvania State University Rafael Velázquez Pérez, Universidad de Vigo/Universidad de Holguín, “Relaciones entre Cuba y la EU y España (Cuba-EU Relations with a focus on Spain)”
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Tuesday, January 5, 2021
10:00 am-12:00 noon
Panel 3: U.S.-Cuba Economic Relations
Chair: Natalia Delgado, Columbia University
Gary Maybarduk, U.S. Department of State (retired), “Encouraging Cuba’s Economic Reform: Can America Help?”
Paolo Spadoni, Augusta University, “The Economic Impact of Trump’s Measures Against Cuba”
Caroline McCollough, Florida International University, “The Helms-Burton Act: Then and Now”
Mrinalini Tankha, Portland State University, “Detained Settlements: Electronic Payment Infrastructures and Precarity in US-Cuba Financial Transactions”
Ricardo Herrero, Cuba Study Group, “US-Cuba Private Sector Engagement: Merits and Missed Opportunities”
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2:00 pm-4:00 pm
Panel 4: Agriculture
Chair: Larry Catá Backer, Penn State University
Mario A. Gonzalez-Corzo, Lehman College, and Armando Nova, Universidad de la Habana, “Desarrollo de la Producción Agropecuaria en Cuba. Plan de Soberanía Alimentaria y Nutricional.” (Presentation may be conducted in English by M.G. Corzo.)
William Messina, University of Florida, “Cuba’s Agricultural Production and Trade Patterns: Good News or Bad News?”
Juan Tomás Sánchez, “La ‘Tarea Ordenamiento” y el cultivo de la tierra”
Joan Martínez Evora, University of Miami, School of Business, “Land and Peasants in Cuba: To Have and to Hold?”
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Wednesday, January 6, 2021
10:00 am-12:00 noon
Panel 5: Book Discussion: La Cuba que quisimos. Essays on the New Cuban Constitution
The book selects and publishes articles that first appeared on the Cuba Posible website, as well as never-published material, regarding Cuba’s new Constitution.
Moderator and panelist: Claudia González Marrero, Justus-Liebig University (Gießen, Germany) and Universidad Sergio Arboleda
Panelists: Elaine Acosta, visiting researcher, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University
Jorge I. Domínguez, retired, former Professor of Government, Harvard University
Lenier González Mederos, former Assistant Director, Cuba Posible, and co-editor, Espacio Laical
Roberto Veiga González, former Director, Cuba Posible, and co-editor, Espacio Laical; member, Inter American Dialogue
Mauricio de Miranda, Profesor Titular at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali
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2:00 pm-4:00 pm
Panel 6: Contemporary Crises in Cuba and Venezuela
Chair: Beatriz Casals, Board of Directors, Bacardi Family Foundation and Board of Advisors, Georgetown University, School of Government, Democracy and Governance Program
Silvia Pedraza, University of Michigan, “Contemporary Crisis in Cuba”
Carlos A. Romero, Universidad Central de Venezuela, “Contemporary Crisis in Venezuela”
José Manuel Puente, Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA), Caracas, and Oxford University, London, “Venezuela in the Stage of Macroeconomic Collapse: A Historical and Comparative Analysis.”
Domingo Amuchastegui, Former Intelligence Analyst, Historian, and Professor of International Relations, “Venezuela’s Elections, the Fragmented Opposition, and the United States”
Discussant: Efraín Velázquez, Presidente, Consejo de Economía Nacional de Venezuela