Cuba's Challenges

Professor Maria de Los Angeles Torres is director of the Latin American and Latino Studies area at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She will be speaking about Cuba's current political, economic, and social challenges at the Cook DeWitt Center in Allendale on Thursday, 10/11, from 2:30 to 4 pm. Professor Torres has written about her experiences as one of the children flown out of Cuba via "Operation Peter Pan" in the early 1960s in her book, "In the Land of Mirrors: Cuban Exile Politics in the United States" (University of Michigan Press, 2001). Here is a lovely pdf describing the event: Download CubaFlyerSponsors.pdf