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Today @ 2:00 PM ET - Getting to a Pragmatic Cuba Policy for the United States
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The United States has pursued a tough sanctions policy against Cuba for decades, interrupted only by a brief thaw during the second Obama administration. The sanctions policy is highly unpopular in Latin America, and indeed the world — it has been voted down in multiple UN resolutions. However, the communist government in Havana remains in power, there is no end in sight to the suffering of the Cuban people, and waves of refugees from the island nation have roiled U.S. domestic politics. The second Trump administration recently released its own Cuba policy; meanwhile, China and Russia are fishing in troubled waters, looking to deepen their ties with Cuba.

Can we get to a more pragmatic Cuba policy that accounts for the vital interests of the United States, which include regional stability in Latin America and the Caribbean? How can we address the severe humanitarian crisis that has been triggered by the U.S. sanctions policy? What are the realistic steps to achieve a balance in the current environment in Washington?

July 2025
22
2:00 PM ET
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Join us for a timely and important discussion with:

William M. LeoGrande

William M. LeoGrande is a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute and associate vice-provost for Academic Affairs, professor of Government, and Dean Emeritus of the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, D.C. He is the co-author of Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana.

Geoff Thale

Geoff Thale is the former president of the Washington Office on Latin America, or WOLA, a leading research and advocacy organization advancing human rights in the Americas. Thale has followed Central American issues since the mid-1980s, and founded WOLA’s Cuba program in 1995. He travels regularly to the island, and has been involved in delegations and exchanges between the U.S. and Cuba.

Joy Gordon

Joy Gordon is the Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J. Chair in Social Ethics in the Philosophy Department at Loyola University-Chicago. She conducts research and publishes extensively in the field of economic sanctions. Gordon has an edited volume forthcoming with Cambridge University Press, Economic Sanctions from Havana to Baghdad: Legitimacy, Accountability, and Humanitarian Consequences.

Sarang Shidore (Moderator)

Sarang Shidore is director of the Global South Program at the Quincy Institute. He was also a member of the adjunct faculty at George Washington University, where he taught a class on the geopolitics of climate change. He researches and writes on the geopolitics of the Global South, Asia, and climate change.

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