{"id":6758,"date":"2016-11-29T14:30:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T14:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=6758"},"modified":"2016-11-29T14:30:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T14:30:56","slug":"william-rowlandson-interviewed-by-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/11\/29\/william-rowlandson-interviewed-by-cnn\/","title":{"rendered":"William Rowlandson interviewed by CNN"},"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 been interviewed by <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/\">CNN<\/a>, following the death of Fidel Castro, about what\u2019s next for Cuba under Raul Castro?<\/p>\n<p>The interview with CNN follows two articles written by William for <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/uk\">The Conversation<\/a> website, including an article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/news\/index.html?view=6743\">Cuban-American diplomatic relations following the election of Donald Trump<\/a> and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/news\/index.html?view=6753\">Jean-Paul Sartre\u2019s observations of Fidel Castro<\/a><u>.<\/u><\/p>\n<p>In the latest article, CNN asks if following the death of his brother Fidel, will Cuban President Raul Castro take the chance to move their country in a new direction? The article discusses the key areas to watch in the future of Cuba including economic reforms, Castro\u2019s successor when he steps down in 2018, relations with the United States and human rights.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about Raul Castro\u2019s likely successor Diaz Canel, William points out that he is significantly younger than the Castro brothers. \u2018That makes him very different. It means that the changing leadership is actually a generational change rather than just a change of figure.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The full article is available on the CNN website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2016\/11\/28\/americas\/cuba-future-raul-castro\/\">http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2016\/11\/28\/americas\/cuba-future-raul-castro\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr William Rowlandson, Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies in the Department of Modern Languages, has been interviewed by CNN, following the death of Fidel Castro, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/11\/29\/william-rowlandson-interviewed-by-cnn\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":6759,"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\/6758"}],"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\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6761,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758\/revisions\/6761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}