Author: Poblete Tamargo LLP

On Thursday, May 23, 2013, at 4:02 PM EST, PT Law’s Jason Poblete will be a guest on “Zona Política con Helen Aguirre,” a public affairs talk show broadcast nationally on the Univision Radio network.

Hosted by award-winning journalist Helen Aguirre, the two-hour program discusses the “news of the day and offers a lively national forum for dialogue and debate.” Zona Política is broadcast daily from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM EST.

 Poblete and Aguirre will discuss President Obama’s counter-terrorism speech this afternoon at the National Defense University.  

You can listen via the internet or your local Univision radio station affiliate.

He has also taught several courses on Cuba, including Cuba after Castro and the Cuban Revolution. His research into U.S.-Cuba relations and reconstruction in a post-Castro Cuba has garnered various advisory and guest speaker engagements with such organizations as the U.S. Southern Command Task Force on Cuba, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, the U.S. Air Force Special Operations University, and ABC News.

In 2008 Gomez was appointed a nonresident senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Program at the prestigious Brookings Institution and served as a delegate to the Organization of American States in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

He successfully led the University’s pivotal Southern Association of Colleges and Schools reaccreditation process. He did such a good job that he was selected as a SACS trustee, representing not only the University of Miami, but private research universities as a group.

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On Monday, May 6, 2013, The Business Bank (TBB) hosted its annual tournament, The Lori Davis Golf Classic, at Westfields Golf Club in Clifton, Virginia in honor of Lori Davis, a dear friend and colleague of TBB who passed away from breast cancer in 2009.  

There were 132 players and each team was comprised of a foursome.  The tournament started in the afternoon with a shotgun start at 1:00pm, and the format of the day was called a “shamble” – a mix between scramble and best-ball.  In other words, each player on a team would tee off, and the team would then select the best tee shot from which to hit their 2nd shots within one club-length of the selected shot.  This was the best-ball portion of the format. 

Once each player hit their 2nd shots, they would hit their subsequent shots from wherever they landed until each member completed the hole.  Ultimately, the team would record the score of whichever member scored the lowest on a hole as the team score for that particular hole.  This consisted of the scramble portion of the format.  

Overall, the course itself was beautifully laid out yet challenging, which made it an interesting day for all of the players.  It rained for a short while, but despite what the weather forecast had predicted, the rain held out for the remainder of the day.  Upon the conclusion of the tournament, TBB hosted a dinner for all of the players and not only awarded trophies to the teams with the lowest gross and net scores respectively, but also awarded numerous raffle prizes.  

It was a wonderful experience, and I enjoyed playing with my team. Most importantly it was a worthwhile cause. Our team captain invited me to play again next year, which I would love to do and which I am already looking forward to.

On Thursday, April 25, 2013, at 4:14 PM EST, PT Law’s Jason Poblete will be a guest on “Zona Política con Helen Aguirre,” a public affairs talk show broadcast nationally on the Univision Radio network.

Hosted by award-winning journalist Helen Aguirre, the two-hour program discusses the “news of the day and offers a lively national forum for dialogue and debate.” Zona Política is broadcast daily from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM EST.

Poblete and Aguirre will discuss the legal and public policy impact of recent reports that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had pressed other federal agencies to have one of the Boston terrorists placed under stricter U.S. government observation.  According to a recent POLITICO story:

 “The CIA shared all the information provided by the foreign government including two possible dates of birth, his name and a possible name variant as well. No information was incorrectly entered in the watchlisting system, and all the information was shared precisely as the foreign government provided it,” the intelligence official told POLITICO. 

You can listen via the internet or your local Univision radio station affiliate.