A Conversation with the Cuban Ambassador

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Join SIS professor emeritus Philip Brenner, an expert on US-Cuba relations and the coauthor of Cuba Libre: A 500-Year Quest for Independence, as he welcomes Cuba’s ambassador to the United States, Lianys Torres Rivera, to SIS for a virtual event. They’ll discuss Cuba’s lauded medical system, including the island nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and how our two countries can find common ground despite tensions that have extended back for decades.

For more than 50 years, between 1961 and 2015, the US and Cuba had no formal diplomatic relations. Since the resumption of formal diplomacy in 2015, only two people have served as the Cuban ambassador to the United States, including Ambassador Torres Rivera. She is a senior diplomat in Cuba’s foreign service, and previously served as Cuba’s ambassador to Vietnam. This event promises to feature a thoughtful, wide-ranging discussion and an audience Q&A about the nation that is only 100 miles from the Florida coast but often seems a world away.

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