Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dominguez said he has "no illusions" about doing research in Cuba in the near future, but he hopes the scholarly ties his trip formed might eventually help open Cuba to American academics...
Dominguez's trip to Cuba was more than a scholarly diplomatic mission, however. He said it was an "emotionally moving experience" to return to the house where his grandparents had lived and where he had grown...
Dominguez is involved with a variety of other research efforts focusing on Cuba, including tentative discussions of the possibility of an opinion poll of Cubans, which would be the first ever taken by foreigners...
With the exception of rare events like the recent trip to Cuba, Dominguez works out of his office at the Center for International Affairs. It is filled with a wall-and-a-half of books and journals on Latin American politics--but the wall above his desk is reserved for a poster of Lucy, the character from the comic strip "Peanuts," shouting, "Vote for the blockhead of your choice...
...Harvard University Press recently published Dominguez's exhaustive study of Cuba in the twentieth century, "Cuba: Order and Revolution." The book is "an inquiry into how each of Cuba's three regimes in the past century tried to establish order, each one's claims to power," Dominguez said yesterday...