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Rafael Hernández, leading scholar of both Cuban politics and Cuba-US relations, takes on the question of the outlook and options for Cuba in the face of the US all out siege and oil blockade. How long can Cuba hold out? What is the nature of the crisis internally? What are the plans and prospects for the Cuban government in the face of this dire situation?

Hernández is a Cuban writer, scholar and political analyst. He is the editor of Revista Temas, the leading Cuban magazine in the social sciences and the humanities, temas.cult.cu, with its blog Catelejo, a space for other well known Cuban intellectuals, with articles such as the recent, Is Cuba Collapsing, by Marta Nuñez. He leads a monthly gathering, Ultimo Jueves, which brings together intellectuals, academics and ordinary Cubans to discuss and debate the pressing issues of the day. His publications include several books and essays on Cuban and U.S. policies, inter-American relations, international security, migration, Cuban culture, civil society and politics, including Looking at Cuba: Essays on Culture and Civil Society (2001), The Other War: Studies on Strategy and International Security (2000), The History of Havana (2006) and Shall We Play Ball? Debating U.S.-Cuban Relations (2011).

Merri Ansara, moderator, is the coordinator of the Cuba Subcommittee in MAPA’s Latin America/Caribbean Working Group (LA/CWG) . She has just returned from the Nuestra America convoy to Cuba.

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