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IISC in the news

6 November 2008

IISC assistant director Stephen Wilkinson contributes to the Guardian Comment is Free website: The change that Cuba needs

17 July 2008

BBC World Service Spanish language website interview with Cuban actress Mirtha Ibarra, invited to the Cine Cuba festival at the Barbican by the IISC

16 July 2008

Le Monde Diplomatique, Brazil: Do Período Especial á ascencao de Raúl (From the Special Period to Raúl) By Dr Stephen Wilkinson, Assistent Director, IISC. Click on the icon below to access the article as a pdf (in Portuguese):

Le Monde Brazil

This is an edited version of a paper by Dr Wilkinson given at the Future of Democracy in Latin America Conference in Belem, Brazil in May 2008. An full-length English language version is available HERE.

24 June, 2008

Guardian Comment is Free blog site: Europe takes the lead on Cuba

12 April, 2008

IISC Assistant Director, Dr Stephen Wilkinson, took part in the BBC World Service Newshour programme to discuss the reform process in Cuba.

4 April, 2008

The Guardian newspaper, London

Cuba's organic revolution

3 April, 2008

IISC Assistant Director, Dr Stephen Wilkinson, took part in the BBC World Service Newshour programme to discuss the reform process in Cuba.

20 March, 2008

Cuban side of the jailed writers' story

IISC Director Professor Patrick Pietroni writes in The Guardian

13 March, 2008

Press TV.

IISC Assistant Director, Dr Stephen Wilkinson, appeared on a 45-minute long discssion programme on the internet and satelite current affairs channel Press TV. Click on the title above to access the programme.

19 February, 2008

Fidel the morning after: IISC coverage of Castro resignation

The IISC Assistant Director, Dr Stephen Wilkinson, appeared on TV and radio nine times on February 19 to comment on the announcement of Fidel Castro's resignation from the presidency. He gave interviews to BBC World, BBC News 24, BBC 1, Sky News, The Press Association, Irish TV, The Guardian, Fox TV, CNN and the BBC World service among other media outlets.

See for example: The Guardian:

What next for Cuba?

He also provided a voiceover for this podcast on the Guardian website.

Castro: A life on film

and this package for Fox News:

What's Next for Cuba?


19 December, 2007

The Guardian, London, UK

Castro hints he may hand over power to new generation by Duncan Campbell

12 November, 2007

Sunday Herald Newspaper, Glasgow, Scotland

Castro's children by Elizabeth Mistry

26 October: Ignacio Ramonet interview on BBC World Service. (en español)

Ramonet: "Castro es muy tímido"

10 October, 2007

Guardian Newspaper, London, UK

Politic's Last Superstar by Ignacio Ramonet

4 October, 2007

CubaNews, Washington:

London-based IISC to be Europe' first institute dedicated to the study of Cuba

October, 2007 edition

By Larry Luxner

Great Britain's International Institute for the Study of Cuba (IISC) officially kicks off its activities Oct. 10 with a lecture by noted French journalist Ignacio Ramonet.

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