Cuba After Castro: The Future of U.S.-Cuba Relations

Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Speakers
Jo Ann Emerson
Member, U.S. House of Representatives (R-MO), Member of Congressional Delegation to Cuba
James P. McGovern
Member, U.S. House of Representatives (D-MA), Member of Congressional Delegation to Cuba
Presider
Julia E. Sweig
Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies and Director for Latin America Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

Representatives Jo Ann Emerson and Jim McGovern recently took part in a bipartisan congressional delegation to Cuba, the largest of its kind since 1959. Join them and Julia Sweig, author of the current Foreign Affairs article ‘Fidel’s Final Victory’, for an in-depth discussion of the country’s succession of power and the future of U.S.-Cuba relations.

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