Sweig: Siginificant Change Unfolding in Cuba

Explainer Video by Julia E. Sweig, Speaker

June 27, 2011, 8:00 am (EST)

Sweig: Siginificant Change Unfolding in Cuba
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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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