Why Does Cuba Matter? by Rafael Betancourt


 Latin American Studies     Apr 8 2019 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM SST 318

Rafael Betancourt, Profesor, Colegio Universitario San Gerónimo - La Habana, Cuba

Recent transformations in the Cuban political and economic system form part of an alternative model of development to those currently existing in the region and other parts of the Global South. What are these main changes? What model of socialism is being crafted in Cuba and what are its perspectives? What can it contribute to other countries if it succeeds?
Rafael J. Betancourt, PhD in Economics, University of Florida and MS in Urban & Regional Planning (ISPJAE, Cuba). Editor of Revista Temas, Cuba’s leading social science and humanities journal.

Consultant for Sol2 Economics, a progressive consulting firm based in Berkeley, California and The Center for Responsible Travel (CREST), a non-profit organization devoted to increasing the positive global impact of responsible tourism. Author of Construyendo socialismo desde abajo: La contribución de la Economía Popular y Solidaria and coauthor with Martha Honey, Jannelle Wilkins and José Luis Perelló, Por el Mar de las Antillas: 50 años de turismo de cruceros en el Caribe. He has numerous published articles and is a frequent speaker in Cuba and the US on economics
and tourism in Cuba. Born in Cuba and educated in the United States, currently lives in Cuba and shares his time between the two countries.

ORGANIZED BY UC-CUBA, CO-SPONSORED BY LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES, DEPARTMENT OF CHICANO LATINO STUDIES&GLOBAL AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES