Reply #43: WTF: Author is a CIA analyst and senior research associate [View All]

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at the University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies. In addition to being funded by the U.S. government, the Bacardi family also bankrolls many of their programs. Here's a quote from an article from 2003 when they tried to upstage groups interested in engaging with the island.

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The Cuba debate permeates South Florida every day, but it took an unusual turn last Saturday when the Bush Administration, having learned that a summit of pro-engagement groups would take place at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, convened its own meeting at the same time, in the same hotel.

In effect, the Administration was using an event staged by an interest group –one that it belittles, at that – to provide a platform for its own message.

...A seminar organized by the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, a center funded by the U.S. government to create studies and plans for the Cuban transition under authority of the Helms-Burton law, provided a setting for Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega to set forth the Administration’s Cuba policy.

http://www.lexingtoninstitute.org/cuba/newsletter/031006cubareport.asp