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Brazilian and US flags fly outside the InterContinental Hotel in Rio de Janeiro. Photo by Larry Luxner.

New Atlanticist

Jun 19, 2015

US-Brazil Relations: Time for a Reset?

On June 30, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will visit the United States, nearly two years after she cancelled a planned trip to Washington in the wake of revelations by Edward Snowden that the US National Security Agency was monitoring her phone calls and emails. Peter Schechter, Director of the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America […]

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In the News

Jun 9, 2015

Schechter and Marczak: Iowans Need Better Answers from Presidential Candidates on Cuba

By Peter Schechter and Jason Marczak

Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center Director Peter Schechter and Deputy Director Jason Marczak write for the Des Moines Register on why liberalizing relations with Cuba should be important to Iowa primary voters:

Cuba Elections

In the News

May 29, 2015

Marczak on Cuba’s Removal from US State Sponsor of Terrorism List

By Jason Marczak

The Wall Street Journal quotes Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center Deputy Director Jason Marczak on Cuba’s removal from the US state sponsor of terrorism list and the reestablishment of ties between the United States and Cuba:

Cuba

News

May 29, 2015

Marczak on US-Cuba Relations

By Jason Marczak

Spanish-language El Tiempo interviews Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center Deputy Director Jason Marczak on the status of negotiations between the United States and Cuba to normalize relations:

Cuba

News

May 29, 2015

Marczak on the Normalization of Relations between the United States and Cuba

By Jason Marczak

Spanish-language El Espectador quotes Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center Deputy Director Jason Marczak on the importance of removing Cuba from the US state sponsors of terrorism list for normalizing relations between the two countries:

Cuba

In the News

May 29, 2015

Marczak on Cuba and the State Sponsors of Terrorism List

By Jason Marczak

Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center Deputy Director Jason Marczak joins Al Jazeera to discuss Cuba and the State Sponsors of Terrorism list:

Cuba

In the News

May 21, 2015

Schechter on US-Cuba Negotiations

By Peter Schechter

The Miami Herald quotes Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center Director Peter Schechter on the resuming of US-Cuba negotiations and what affect the embargo will have on those negotiations:

Cuba

In the News

May 15, 2015

Schechter on Continuing Diplomatic Talks between the United States and Cuba

By Peter Schechter

The Miami Herald quotes Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center Director Peter Schechter on President Obama’s window of opportunity to appoint a US ambassador to Cuba with limited congressional opposition:

Cuba

In the News

Apr 26, 2015

Schechter On Trade Implications of Renewed Cuba Relations

By Peter Schechter

The Miami Herald quotes Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center Director Peter Schechter on questions of lifting the Cuban embargo as negotiations progress on renewing diplomatic relations with Cuba: 

Cuba

New Atlanticist

Apr 14, 2015

US-Cuba Forecast: Sunny?

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Cuba’s removal from terrorism list opens the door to full diplomatic relations says Atlantic Council’s Schechter US President Barack Obama’s decision to take Cuba off the list of state sponsors of terrorism is a long-awaited move that “opens the door” to the re-establishment of relations with Cuba, said Peter Schechter, the Atlantic Council’s lead Latin […]

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