The Trump administration announced it would end 鈥減eople-to-people鈥� and cruise ship trips to Cuba. CU 麻豆影院 expert Kaifa Roland is available for media interviews.
Stock photo of Cuba.
Roland, an associate professor of anthropology, studies the Cuban tourism economy. She says limiting tourism serves to strengthen the communist regime. She is also fluent in Spanish.
鈥淟imiting the number of Americans who travel to Cuba for people-to-people exchanges negatively affects the emerging self-employment sector that constitutes one of the few groups with the power to press for socio-economic changes within Cuba,鈥� Roland said.
Contact:
Andrew Sorensen, CU 麻豆影院 media relations
andrew.sorensen@colorado.edu
Kaifa Roland, associate professor of anthropology
kaifa.roland@colorado.edu
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