Havana, Cuba Dr. John Linantud Malecón Mirror University of Houston Downtown Republic of Cuba Political Travelogue 17-27 June 2012
The Social Science Lectures Dr. Claude Rubinson Updated 12 September 2012
UHD Faculty Development Grant
Translations by Dr. Jose Alvarez, UHD Ports of Havana Port of Mariel and Matanzas Population 313 million Ethnic Cuban 1.6 million (US Statistical Abstract 2012)
Miami - Havana 1 Hour
Population 11 million Negative 5% annual immigration rate 1960- 2005 (Human Development Report 2009) What Normal Cuba-US Relations Would Look Like Varadero, Cuba Fisherman
Being Cuban is like always being up to your neck in water
-Reverend Raul Suarez, Martin Luther King Center and Member of Parliament, Marianao, Havana, Cuba 18 June 2012 Soplillar, Cuba (north of Hotel Playa Giron) Community Hall Questions So Far?
José Martí (1853-95) Havana-Plaza De La Revolución + Assorted Locations Che Guevara (1928-67) Havana-Plaza De La Revolución + Assorted Locations
Derek
Chandler
International Airport Exit Doctor Camilo Cienfuegos (1932-59) Havana-Plaza De La Revolución + Assorted Locations Havana Museo de la Revolución
Batista Reagan
Bush I Bush II
JFK?
Havana Museo de la Revolución + Assorted Locations The Cuban Five Havana Avenue 31 North-Eastbound
M26=Moncada Barracks Attack 26 July 1953/CDR=Committees for Defense of the Revolution Armed Forces per 1,000 People
Source: World Bank (http://databank.worldbank.org/data/Home.aspx) 24 May 12 Questions So Far? pt. 2
Marianao, Havana, Grade School Fidel Raul
Che
Fidel
Che
Che 2+4=6
Jerry Marianao, Havana Neighborhood Health Clinic Fidel Raul
Fidel
Waiting Room Administrative Area
Chandler
Over Entrance Front Entrance Marianao, Havana, Ration Store
Food Ration Book Life Expectancy
Source: World Bank (http://databank.worldbank.org/data/Home.aspx) 24 May 12. Questions So Far? pt. 3 Police
Chinese Tourist Personal Australia
Havana Soplillar
Cristo de la Habana (under renovation)
MLK Center
Mass La Plaza de Catedral
Cube facing Artist Chapel in Fort San Carlos
Brigade 2506
Varadero
Che
Varadero Seminary Marianao, Havana Martin Luther King Center
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Varadero Reconciliation
Havana-Parque de la Fraternidad
Havana-Hotel Nacional Varadero Havana-San Carlos Forta Nat King Cole
José Martí International Airport Suggested Reading
1. Armando Chaguaceda, "The Promise Besieged: Participation and Autonomy in Cuba," NACLA Report on the Americas (July/August 2011) 20-25, 42.
2. Alejandro de la Fuente, “Race and Income Inequality in Contemporary Cuba,” NACLA Report on the Americas (July/August 2011) 30-33, 42.
3. Economist, Special Report-Cuba, 24 March 2012.
4. Carlos Eire, Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy (New York: The Free Press, 2003).
5. granma.cu/ingles/index.html (Cuban Government website)
6. Brian Latell, After Fidel: The Inside Story of Castro's Regime and Cuba's Next Leader (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005).
7. Brian Latell, Castro's Secrets: The CIA and Cuba's Intelligence Machine (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012).
8. James W. McGuire and Laura B. Frankel, "Mortality Decline in Cuba, 1900- 1959: Patterns, Comparisons, and Causes," Latin American Research Review 40, 2 (June 2005) 83-116.
Suggested Reading, pt. 2
9. Carmelo Mesa-Lago, The Cuban Economy Today: Salvation or Damnation? (University of Miami: Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, 2005).
10. Eusebio Mujal-León, "Survival, Adaptation and Uncertainty: The Case of Cuba," Journal of International Affairs 65, 1 (Fall/Winter 2011) 149-68.
11. Ricardo Torres Pérez, "Economic Changes in Cuba: Current Situation and Perspectives," Harvard International Review (Summer 2012) 16-19.
12. Gerald Posner, Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK (New York: Anchor, 2003).
13. Mark P. Sullivan, Cuba: Issues for the 111th Congress (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service) 4 January 2011.
14. United States Government Accountability Office, U.S. Embargo on Cuba: Recent Regulatory Changes and Potential Presidential or Congressional Actions, 17 September 2009.
15. Ruth Ellen Wasem, Cuban Migration to the United States: Policy and Trends (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service) 2 June 2009.
Final Questions?
Regime Timeline Year Event 1898 Cuba becomes US protectorate after Spanish-American War 1902 Independence from US 1959 Fidel Castro seizes power, installs communist regime, allies with Soviet Union 1960-65 Geopolitical Turmoil US refuses to abandon naval base at Guantanamo Bay Cuba nationalizes domestic and foreign properties US embargo and covert action, including failed assassinations of Fidel Failed Bay of Pigs invasion by anti-communist Cubans (1961) Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) President Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald (1963) Anti-communist insurgency fails; first peak of migration to US (1965)
1980 Second peak of migration, a.k.a. Mariel Boatlift 1989 Communism falls in Europe; Castro purges suspect officials 1991 Soviet Union dissolves 1994 Third peak of migration follows Havana riots; US to accept at least 20,000 per year 1996 Cuba shoots down Cuban-American planes off Havana 1999- Hugo Chavez of Venezuela sends oil to Cuba 2002 Russia closes last military facility 2003 Major crackdown on dissidents 2008 Armed forces chief Raul Castro replaces ailing older brother Fidel, elevates military entrepreneurs and technocrats 2011 Human rights activist Laura Pollan dies of heart attack 2012 Democracy activist Oswaldo Paya dies in car crash