{"id":6743,"date":"2016-11-25T12:34:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T12:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=6743"},"modified":"2016-11-25T12:34:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T12:34:29","slug":"william-rowlandson-on-trumps-relationship-with-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/11\/25\/william-rowlandson-on-trumps-relationship-with-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"William Rowlandson on Trump\u2019s relationship with Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/staff\/rowlandson.html\">Dr William Rowlandson<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/index.html\">Department of Modern Languages<\/a>, has contributed a piece to the website <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/uk\">The Conversation<\/a>, asking what next for Cuban-American diplomatic relations following the election of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The piece, entitled \u2018Cuba on Alert to See What Trump has Planned for America\u2019s Closest\u00a0Enemy\u2019, observes that Trump has promised to reverse current President Barack Obama\u2019s plans to close the controversial Gitmo detention centre at Guantanamo Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, as William observes, Trump has made inconsistent promises throughout his campaign, seemingly supporting Obama\u2019s initiatives to restablishing US-Cuban international relations. \u2018If Trump wanted to open up Cuba for US business, he would have to reverse his own plans to reverse Obama\u2019s plans,\u2019 argues William, \u2018as we\u2019ve seen &#8211;\u00a0with Donald Trump, anything seems possible.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The full piece is available to read on The Conversation website here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/cuba-on-alert-to-see-what-trump-has-planned-for-americas-closest-enemy-69018\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/cuba-on-alert-to-see-what-trump-has-planned-for-americas-closest-enemy-69018<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr William Rowlandson, Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies in the Department of Modern Languages, has contributed a piece to the website The Conversation, asking what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/11\/25\/william-rowlandson-on-trumps-relationship-with-cuba\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":6750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6743"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6752,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743\/revisions\/6752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}