Hare Offers Insight on Cuban Presidential Elections
On May 5, 2023 Ambassador Paul Hare, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, was interviewed by Latin American Advisor on the re-election of Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel.
Hare discussed Díaz-Canel’s maintenance of the status quo in Cuban and steady continuation of the Castro legacy. Despite sharpening economic issues that persisted throughout his first term, Díaz-Canel won almost unanimously by a vote of the Cuban National Assembly. Hare expects that his second term will largely follow the first: sticking to the same rhetorical tactics as Fidel and Raúl Castros, reinstating a close alliance with Russia, and maintaining an aloof distance from the United States.
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Ambassador Paul Hare was a British diplomat for 30 years and the British ambassador to Cuba from 2001-04. He now teaches classes at Boston University on Diplomatic Practice, Arms Control, Intercultural Communication, and on Cuba in Transition. His novel, “Moncada — A Cuban Story,” set in modern Cuba, was published in 2010. His book, “Making Diplomacy Work; Intelligent Innovation for the Modern World” was published in 2015. Learn more about Professor Hare on his faculty profile.