Bob Beatty: "Cuba in 2011: Alive, but Standing Still"
November 30, Noon, International House
Communist Cuba still holds on, even with the decades-long American economic and travel embargo still firmly in place. With the succession of leadership from Fidel Castro to his brother Raoul Castro and promised economic changes - along with the change from President Bush to Obama - is Cuba coming out of its time warp?
Dr. Bob Beatty of the Washburn University Political Science Department traveled to Cuba last February to find out, and will explain why he does not see much cause for optimism.
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