ABSTRACT
Academic, educational, and cultural exchanges between Cuba and the United States have created a complex field of relations in which agency, power, and the possibilities of paradigmatic change are at play. Professional organizations have been, and will be, important for taking advantage of the new spaces that are growing within the terrain charted by the Obama administration’s implementation of the sanctions against Cuba. An alternative might find its reflections in the problems, issues, and successes in the various spaces of cooperation. The flourishing academic and educational cooperation described thus far created an array of spaces defined by different sorts of disciplinary and personal commitments, institutional locations, and purposes. The terrain of academic and cultural cooperation is a complex and living network of relational spaces created by individuals and groups, institutions and nongovernmental organizations, and the Cuban and US states. Support for the Cuban People and Humanitarian Projects were newly identified; constraints on commerce, financial mechanisms, and remittances were all reduced.
