{"id":51130,"date":"2021-11-10T10:15:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T15:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=51130"},"modified":"2021-11-12T10:52:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T15:52:24","slug":"hare-comments-on-protests-in-cuba-and-government-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2021\/11\/10\/hare-comments-on-protests-in-cuba-and-government-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Hare Comments on Protests in Cuba And Government Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/12\/CF-e1616093830636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"421\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/12\/CF-e1616093830636.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/12\/CF-e1616093830636-534x300.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>Ambassador\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/paul-webster-hare\/\">Paul Hare<\/a><span>, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the\u00a0<\/span><span>Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies<\/span><span> at Boston University, was quoted in a\u00a0<em>Reuters<\/em> article discussing the upcoming &#8220;Civic March for Change&#8221; in Cuba planned for November 15, 2021.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The article, titled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/ahead-planned-protests-cuban-government-dissidents-wage-battle-ideas-2021-11-10\/\">Ahead of planned protests, Cuban government and dissidents wage &#8216;battle of ideas&#8217;<\/a>,&#8221; explores the upcoming protests &#8211; led by a younger, more internet savvy youth &#8211; as well as the Cuban government&#8217;s strategy to defame the protest through media campaigns and spycraft. Hare noted that the government is clearly reverting to Cold War-era strategies against protest movements claiming, &#8220;they&#8217;ve lost the narrative, the battle of ideas, especially with young people.&#8221; The article goes on to state how the government is deploying every strategy it can to reel in the protesters, even blaming the United States for meddling in the country&#8217;s affairs.<\/p>\n<p>The full article can be read on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/ahead-planned-protests-cuban-government-dissidents-wage-battle-ideas-2021-11-10\/\"><em>Reuters<\/em>&#8216; website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/paul-webster-hare\/\">Ambassador Paul Hare<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>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, \u201c<em>Moncada \u2014 A Cuban Story<\/em>,\u201d set in modern Cuba, was published in 2010. His book, \u201c<em>Making Diplomacy Work; Intelligent Innovation for the Modern World<\/em>\u201d was published in 2015. Learn more about Professor Hare on his<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/paul-webster-hare\/\">faculty profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambassador Hare argues that the Cuban government is clearly reverting to Cold War-era strategies against protest movements claiming, &#8220;they&#8217;ve lost the narrative, the battle of ideas, especially with young people.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17823,"featured_media":26126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410],"tags":[11784,1837,8539,4250,9878],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51132,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51130\/revisions\/51132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}