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Cuba
USAID Extends Support to University of Miami's
Cuba Transition Project
Adolfo Franco, assistant administrator for the Latin American
and Caribbean bureau of USAID, recently awarded an additional
$1 million to the University of Miami’s Institute for
Cuban American Studies.
The award raises USAID’s commitment to the program
to over $3 million. The new grant will extend the institute’s
Cuba Transition Project.
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USAID Assistant
Administrator Adolfo Franco recently presented the University
of Miami with a $1 million grant to extend its Cuba
Transition Project. |
“The Cuba Transition Project has done tremendous work
in examining the experiences of other countries that have
successfully transitioned from a dictatorship to a democracy,”
Franco said. “A democratic Cuba is inevitable, and the
work being done now at the University of Miami with our assistance
will ease this transition when it happens.”
The Cuba Transition Project is a pioneer academic program
that examines the complex issues surrounding Cuba’s
transition to democracy. With support from USAID, a comprehensive
database on transition issues and analysis materials that
circulate in Cuba have already been developed.
The Presidential Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba,
chaired by former Secretary of State Colin Powell, used the
project’s materials extensively in preparing a 400-page
report to President George Bush last year.
Attending the award ceremony on March 7 with Franco in Miami
were University of Miami President Dr. Donna E. Shalala, University
of Miami Provost Dr. Luis Glazer, Director of the Institute
for Cuban and Cuban American Studies Dr. Jaime Suchlicki and
Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R- 18).
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