University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies.

The Economist, the influential British magazine, does not want people to read this report, which was published by the University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies. The Economist held a conference at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington on December 3^rd. The event’s attendants read like a who’s who of businesses wanting to have the United States lift its trade embargo against the Cuban regime. Frank Calzon, Executive Director at the Center for a Free Cuba, has distributed similar reports at numerous conferences at universities, think tanks, and hotels. In the last 40 years, he was expelled from three events at the request of Cuban diplomats present. In the United States, as long as there is no disruption and one conducts himself civilly, the distribution of academic reports is usually welcomed. At the Four Seasons, he was first told he would be allowed to make available the report outside the conference room during one of their breaks. Later, he was told they would call the police to arrest him if he did not leave. The police came and did not arrest him. An Administration official attending the conference offered to make the report available to the participants. Mr. Calzon went home.

But The Economist, perhaps trying to accommodate the Cuban government (as a Professor of the University of Havana spoke at the conference), used heavy-handed methods which are most common in Havana.