The Frozen U.S.-Cuba Relationship
Julia E. Sweig interviewed by Brianna LeeUnder President Raul Castro, Cuba has begun economic and political reforms while bolstering ties with Brazil and the Vatican. But Washington...
Speaker: Julia E. Sweig, Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies, CFR
May 2, 2011
Having just returned from Cuba's Communist Party Congress, Council on Foreign Relations' Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies, Julia Sweig, shares her analysis of the political and economic reforms introduced by Raul Castro.
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