Latin American Briefing Series: The Cuban Transition: Imagined and Actual, Rafael Hernandez

Rafael Hern~A!ndez, one of the most visible intellectuals living and writing in Cuba today, will address Cuba's unique social diversity and the emergence of growing inequality that accompanied and has followed the crisis of the 1990s. Hern~A!ndez is the editor of Temas, the leading Cuban magazine in the social sciences and the humanities, which is renowned for its contribution to intellectual controversy on the island. He is a senior research fellow at the Centro de Investigaci~A^3n de la Cultura Cubana Juan Marinello in Havana and is the author or editor of several books, including Cuba and the Caribbean and United States-Cuban Relations in the Nineties.