Presented By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
LACS Online Event. Learning from Our Neighbors: Cuba’s Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic
Peter Kornbluh, Dayan Monier, Peter Rosset
Since the Covid-19 outbreak, Cuba’s highly acclaimed health system has shown an impressive ability to control the spread of the disease. Cuba has also developed promising treatments and has sent medical brigades to 20 countries to help fight the pandemic. What can we learn from a health care system that prioritizes people over profits? How can the U.S. government turn from a punishing blockade to mutually beneficial cooperation with our island neighbor?
Join us for a virtual presentation and discussion with three expert commentators.
Peter Kornbluh is a Senior Analyst at the National Security Archive in Washington, D.C. (an investigative journalism and research organization founded in 1985 to check rising government secrecy), where he is the director of Cuba and Chile documentation projects. His most recent book is Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana (UNC Press, 2014), a Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year. He recently wrote an article in The Nation entitled, “Covid-19: Cuba Deserves Relief from U.S. Sanctions” -
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/coronavirus-cuba-sanctions-aid/
Dayan Monier has a college degree in Education with English specialization and postgraduate studies in translation and interpretation. For over 15 years, he has worked as a translator, interpreter and a professor of English for several Cuban government agencies and private companies. He was the interpreter for Danny Glover in his last visit to Cuba, and for former US representative from New Jersey Donald Payne, Jr., among others. He is also an active preacher at the International Christian Community in Cuba. He was born in a majority poor black people community in Havana and still lives there with his wife and two children.
Peter Rosset is a professor of Agriculture, Society, and Environment at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and has held teaching and research positions at the Agrarian University in Havana, Cuba, as well as universities in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Spain, Brazil, and the United States. His books include The Greening of the Revolution: Cuba’s Experiment with Organic Agriculture and he has written extensively on agroecology and agrarian social movements.
This event is hosted by the Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice Latin America Caucus.
Join us for a virtual presentation and discussion with three expert commentators.
Peter Kornbluh is a Senior Analyst at the National Security Archive in Washington, D.C. (an investigative journalism and research organization founded in 1985 to check rising government secrecy), where he is the director of Cuba and Chile documentation projects. His most recent book is Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana (UNC Press, 2014), a Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year. He recently wrote an article in The Nation entitled, “Covid-19: Cuba Deserves Relief from U.S. Sanctions” -
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/coronavirus-cuba-sanctions-aid/
Dayan Monier has a college degree in Education with English specialization and postgraduate studies in translation and interpretation. For over 15 years, he has worked as a translator, interpreter and a professor of English for several Cuban government agencies and private companies. He was the interpreter for Danny Glover in his last visit to Cuba, and for former US representative from New Jersey Donald Payne, Jr., among others. He is also an active preacher at the International Christian Community in Cuba. He was born in a majority poor black people community in Havana and still lives there with his wife and two children.
Peter Rosset is a professor of Agriculture, Society, and Environment at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and has held teaching and research positions at the Agrarian University in Havana, Cuba, as well as universities in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Spain, Brazil, and the United States. His books include The Greening of the Revolution: Cuba’s Experiment with Organic Agriculture and he has written extensively on agroecology and agrarian social movements.
This event is hosted by the Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice Latin America Caucus.
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