Julia E. Sweig

Monday, May 31, 2010 at 12 Noon

Topic: Cuba Since Fidel

Julia E. Sweig is an American author and scholar of Latin American studies. The Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies and Director for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, she specializes in Latin America and U.S. Latin America foreign policy.

Sweig is on the editorial board of “Foreign Affairs en Espanol,” She has written several books, including “Friendly Fire: Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century,” “Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground,” and “U.S.-Cuban Relations in the 21st Century, A Follow-On Chairman’s Report, Report of an Independent Task Force.”

NOTE:  This presentation will be at the Samoset, but in the Baypoint Ballroom instead of Marcels.

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