Allan Silveria Wright (CB-Barbados) and Francisco Alberto Ramirez de Leon (CB-Dominican Republic): Understanding Fiscal Limits and Debt in the Developing Economies of Central America and the Caribbean. From the Journal of Transnational American Studies, a forum on American studies: Caribbean edition. Will the Caribbean Reparations Initiative inspire a revitalization of the US movement? Underdevelopment in the Caribbean is a direct legacy of the slave trade and descendants of enslaved Africans should be compensated accordingly. Valerio Simoni (IHEID): The Morality of Friendship in Touristic Cuba. If not now, when? This would be an especially good time for a change in America’s relations with Cuba. Havana retro-Soviet restaurant Nazdarovie a nod to nostalgia. George Ciccariello-Maher (Drexel): “So Much the Worse for the Whites”: Dialectics of the Haitian Revolution. Robert Fatton (Haiti): Haiti in the Aftermath of the Earthquake: The Vicissitudes of a Neo-Trusteeship. Jean-Claude Duvalier is dead, but he will haunt Haiti for years to come. UNESCO says a wreck off Haiti isn’t the Santa Maria. Jillian Nicole Blake on Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and race-based statelessness in the Americas. Hector Luis Alamo on Puerto Rico, the Scotland of the Antilles. In Puerto Rico, the hedge funds are there to help. All hail the Boricua diaspora. Josh Eells is searching for Hunter S. Thompson's San Juan. Some of Fania Records’ stars reunite in New York to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the record label that has been compared to Motown Records because of its acceptance in the U.S. and Latin America. Michael Warenycia on the disconnect between intellectuals and the masses on Sint Maarten/Saint Martin, with specific reference to issues of agriculture and self-sufficiency. St. Lucia bars entry to travelers coming from three West African nations overwhelmed with Ebola epidemics. At least “several” citizens of Trinidad and Tobago have traveled overseas to aid militants including the group known as the Islamic State.
