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The Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies (ICCAS) at the University of Miami held the seminar "U.S. Policy Toward Cuba Under a New Republican or Democratic Administration" on September 21, 2016. The Seminar featured Jaime Suchlicki, Alfredo Duran and Otto Reich. Click here to watch

Moderator  Jaime Suchlicki, Director, Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, and Emilio Bacardi Moreau Distinguished Professor at the University of Miami. He is also editor of “Cuban Affairs,” a quarterly electronic journal published by ICCAS, and the author of Cuba: from Columbus to Castro; Mexico: from Montezuma to the Rise of PAN; and Breve Historia de Cuba. Dr. Suchlicki is a highly regarded consultant to the public and private sector in the U.S.

Panelist  Alfredo Duran, is a lawyer practicing in Miami, Florida. Mr. Duran has a long standing record of participation in Democratic Party politics including chairmanship of the Florida Democratic Party, 1976-1980 and membership in various DNC party committees and commissions. He has also served as member of the Dade County School Board, chairman of the Community Relations Board, Member of the Board of Directors of Mercy Hospital Foundation, Inc., NAFTA and Beyond Commission and other civic and community organizations. He is a former member of the Bay of Pigs Invasion; a prisoner of war in Cuba for 18 months; former president of the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association and is presently Member of the Board of Directors of the Cuban Committee for Democracy (CCD) and Member of the Board of Directors of Center for International Policy.

Panelist  Otto Reich, President of Otto Reich Associates, LLC, of Washington, DC, served as U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela, from 1986 to 1989. In the 1980’s, Reich received three appointments from President Ronald Reagan: As Special Advisor to the Secretary of State from 1983 to 1986, he directed the Office of Public Diplomacy for Latin America and the Caribbean, which received the Department’s Meritorious Honor Award. From 1981 to 1983, he was Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in charge of U.S. economic assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean. He was the Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs from 2001 to 2002. He then became President Bush’s Special Envoy for Western Hemisphere Initiatives, reporting to Dr. Condoleezza Rice in the National Security Council. He left government service in June 2004.

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