Prospects for An Internet-based Research Dialogue on the Future of U.S.-Mexico-Cuba Relations
May 11-12, 2006
The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) at the University of Texas at Austin, in cooperation with the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), organized a two-day workshop this past May in Mexico City to discuss the prospects of an Internet research dialogue between the United States, Mexico, and Cuba.
With U.S.-Cuba relations at one of their lowest points in the last forty years, the purpose of this workshop was to explore use of the Web and Internet as a means of maintaining a continuing substantive dialogue between the academic and policy communities in Cuba, the United States, and Mexico on issues of mutual concern. Given urgent shared problems regarding trade, immigration, economic development, drug trafficking, terrorism, environment, and social policy, there was much to be gained by establishing an ongoing discussion with academics and policy analysts from each country.
Participants:
United States
Jafari Allen, Jossianna Arroyo-Martinez, Ken Flamm, Eugene Gholz, César Salgado, Erik Schuchmann, Nicolas Shumway, Chandler Stolp, The University of Texas at Austin; Steven Clemons, New America Foundation; Gerald Epstein, Center on Strategic and International Studies
Canada
Gustavo Indart, Programme on Latin America and the Caribbean, University of Toronto; John de la Mothe, University of Ottawa
Mexico
Rossana Fuentes-Berain, Alejandro Moreno, ITAM; Manuel Gonzalez Oropeza, Eugenia Correa, Alicia Giron, UNAM; Judith Mariscal, CIDE; Vidal Garza, ITESM; Juan Diez Canedo, FODEFIN, S.A.; Carlos Casasus, José Antonio Ramírez Vidal, CUDI; Alejandro Pisanti, Dirección General de Servicios de Cómputo Académico (DGSCA); Mateo Lejarza, Jorge Sandoval, TELMEX; Arnulfo Valdivia, Asuntos Internacionales, Gobierno del Edo. Mexico; Roberto Martinez Yllescas, INTEL
International
Thomas Cieslik, Friedrich Naumann Stiftung Foundation; Cristina Eguizabal, Ford Foundation; Francis Pisani, Journalist from El País (Madrid) and Reforma (Mexico)
Cuba
Luis Rene Fernandez, Jorge Hernandez, CESEU, Universidad de la Habana; Antonio Romero, SELA; Juan Triana, Universidad de la Habana; Miriam Rodriguez, CEMI