What sort of economic model will Raúl leave behind? And what strategies can restore genuine economic opportunity and freedom to the Cuban people? Please join us for a discussion of these topics and more, keynoted by Castro scholar, author and former U.S. intelligence analyst Brian Latell.

As the region's leaders gather for the Summit of the Americas on April 14-15, some plan to argue for Castro's inclusion — but will any speak up for the Cuban people? Please join us for a discussion among a panel of experts, some of whom recently returned from Cuba.

Post-Castro, how will Cuba transition from dictatorship to democracy? How will its society evolve? What willCuba"s economic outlook be?

AEI resident scholar Mark Falcoff, author of Cuba the Morning After, which the AEI Press will publish this spring, delivered the fifth of the Institute's 2002-2003 Bradley Lectures.

Cuba alone has managed to marry the cult of the messianic leader, perhaps the oldest political tendency in Latin American politics, to the totalitarian principle.

In 1958 Cuba was the most pro-American (and Americanized) country in Latin America. Today, after more than forty years of Castro's revolution, it is very nearly the lone holdout against globalization, free markets, and democracy in the hemisphere. What drove Cuba to this state? What explains its peculiar fascination for...