Prospects for An Internet-based Research Dialogue on the Future of U.S.-Mexico-Cuba Relations (overview), May 11-12, 2006

The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) at the University of Texas at Austin, in cooperation with the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), organized a two-day workshop this past May in Mexico City to discuss the prospects of an Internet research dialogue between the United States, Mexico, and Cuba. With U.S.-Cuba relations at one of their lowest points in the last forty years, the purpose of this workshop was to explore use of the Web and Internet as a means of maintaining a continuing substantive dialogue between the academic and policy communities in Cuba, the United States, and Mexico on issues of mutual concern. Given urgent shared problems regarding trade, immigration, economic development, drug trafficking, terrorism, environment, and social policy, there was much to be gained by establishing an ongoing discussion with academics and policy analysts from each country.