Julia Sweig is a senior research fellow at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. A long-time scholar of US-Cuba relations, she is the author of Friendly Fire: Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century and Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know.
Sweig is a former director of Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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