Keith Bolender worked for many years on the Toronto Star. He currently lectures at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies on American Foreign Policy and the Cuba Revolution. more

Brian Latell was the CIA's National Intelligence Officer for Latin America from 1990-1994, and has tracked Castro for the CIA since the sixties. more

George Lambie is a Principal Lecturer in the Department of Public Policy at De Montfort University in Leicester. He is also a visiting professor of the University of Havana and joint-editor of the International Journal of Cuban Studies. His writings on Cuba have won... more

Joaquín Roy is Jean Monnet Professor and Director of the University of Miami’s  European Union Center of Excellence. He has published over 200 academic articles and reviews, and he is the author or editor of 35 books, among them Cuba, the U.S. and the Helms-Burton Doctrine:... more

Jonathan Curry-Machado is a Fellow in the Technology and Agrarian Development group at Wageningen University, in the Netherlands, where he is involved with the “Commodities and Anticommodities” program, researching rural society in the Hispanic Caribbean in the nineteenth... more

H. Michael Erisman is Professor of Political Science at Indiana State University. He is the author of Cuba’s International Relations: The Anatomy of a Nationalistic Foreign Policy (1985), South-South Relations in the Caribbean (1992), and Cuba’s Foreign Relations in a... more

Katherine Ford is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at East Carolina University. Some of her work has appeared in Latin American Theatre Review, Gestos, and collected works on Hispanic literature.  more