Inside Intelligence Presents: Is Freedom Coming to Cuba?
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Join moderator Michael Ard, program director of the MS in Intelligence Analysis program, as he welcomes Frank Mora, senior research scientist and professor of politics and international relations at Florida International University, to discuss the prospects for political change in Cuba amid increased U.S. economic and political pressure.
Despite severe economic hardship, blackouts, and shortages on the island, Cuba’s communist government has largely resisted major political concessions. Tensions between the two countries were on recently on display when the Cuban delegation walked out during President Trump’s United Nations General Assembly speech after he declared that “freedom will be coming to Cuba.”
A former U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States, Mora served as director of the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center at FIU from 2013-20. He has also held teaching positions at the National War College, National Defense University, and Rhodes College, where he served as associate professor and chair in the Department of International Studies,
Over the past two decades, Mora worked as a consultant to the Library of Congress, the Institute for National Security Studies, the National Democratic Institute, the U.S. State Department, the Organization of American States, and U.S. Southern Command.
He is the author or editor of five books, including Neighborly Adversaries: U.S.-Latin American Relations and has written more than 30 academic and policy articles, book chapters, and monographs on hemispheric security, U.S.-Latin American relations, civil-military relations, Cuban politics and the military, and Latin American political economy and integration.
Mora received his PhD in international affairs and an MA in inter-American studies from the University of Miami. He earned his BA in international affairs from The George Washington University. He also completed studies at universities in Peru and Costa Rica.
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