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Oct 18, 2004

Legal Expert On U.S.-Cuban Relations To Lecture At DePaul University Nov. 4 On Strengthened U.S. Embargo Against Cuba

Debra Evenson, a well-respected expert on Cuba, will discuss the United States’ embargo regulations against the country; the history of U.S. government restrictions on travel to Cuba from the 1960s to the present; the impact of these actions on Cuba; and U.S.-Cuban relations, past and present; at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 4 in the DePaul Student Center, 2250 N. Sheffield Ave., Room 220.

A former professor of law at DePaul, Evenson is currently a visiting professor of law at Rutgers Law School, Camden, N.J. She has lectured and written extensively on Cuban law and is the author of “Law and Society in Contemporary Cuba” and “Workers in Cuba: Unions and Labor Relations.”

The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact the Center for Latino Research, 773/325-7316 or visit the center’s Web site at: www.depaul.edu/~dialogo .