U.S., global officials to study Cuba's future
Posted on Mon, Apr. 07, 2008
BY LUISA YANEZ
lyanez@MiamiHerald.com
A roundtable on Cuba's future kicks off Monday with Commerce Secretary
Carlos Gutierrez, Undersecretary of State for Democracy and Global
Affairs Paula Dobriansky and several ambassadors from Eastern European
and Central American countries.
The daylong roundtable at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables will focus
on trends in Cuban society and strategies and tactics to help promote
democratic change on the island of more than 11 million people.
U.S. Rep. Eliot Engle, Democrat from New York and chairman of the
Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, also will be among those
participating in the roundtable.
U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Miami, will give the opening remarks at
9 a.m.
''This meeting brings together a respected group of Cuban democracy
advocates with veterans of the struggle to build democracy in Central
America and in Eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union,''
Ros-Lehtinen said in a statement.
The roundtable, she said, ``offers us an important opportunity to apply
the lessons learned from these experiences in ways that will better
support the Cuban opposition in bringing about an end to the repressive
rule of the Castro brothers and the Cuban communist regime.''
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