Category: News & Media

(Coral Gables, Florida) Dr. Andy Gomez, Senior Advisor with Poblete Tamargo, was interviewed this week by National Public Radio (NPR) as part of a story that discusses how U.S.-Cuba policy makes its way into South Florida political campaigns. 

“Sure we care about Cuba,” Gomez told NPR. “But Cuba is no longer a top priority” in these elections. “Gomez in fact worries that episodes like this encourage the stereotype that Cuban-Americans are emotionally obsessed with Cuba to the exclusion of other issues like the economy.

“It reflects, he says, “taking a step back in terms of the maturity that the Cuban-American community has shown in terms of politics. Every once in a while we fall back into the politics of passion, and this is what we were seeing between Curbelo and Garcia” Congressional campaign. 

You can listen to the entire interview here.

(Miami, Florida) Dr. Andy Gomez, a senior advisor with Poblete Tamargo in Miami, was recently interviewed about his latest book, Social Challenges Facing Cuba.

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, there has been a rapid transition from communist regimes to more democratic forms of governments around the world. In most of these situations, the changes and pre-transition analyses have focused on the areas of political and economic transformation while paying very little attention to the impact such dramatic changes have on the people.

Gomez analyzes some of the human factors that arise during a transition as it applies to Cuba. The study will be an invaluable tool to U.S. policymakers as they consider the various issues that need to be factored in during Cuba’s eventual break from totalitarian rule to a free system of government. 

Gomez sat down with Eliott Rodriguez, an Emmy Award winning journalist and respected South Florida news anchor, to discuss the book.

You can view the interview at the CBS4 website.

(Coral Gables, Florida) Poblete Tamargo Senior Policy Advisor, Dr. Andy Gomez, was recently interviewed by El Nuevo Herald and the Miami Herald about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent visit to Cuba:

“Putin believes that U.S. foreign policy is now at probably its weakest point in 10 to 15 years,” Gomez said. “He has realized that he can get away with anything, that he can tell the Americans ‘We’re back in the region, and what are you going to do about it?’”

You can read the entire El Nuevo Herald story here and the Miami Herald piece here. 

On Monday, July 22, 2014, Poblete Tamargo’s Jason Poblete was interviewed on CNBC’s Squawk Box about recent events in Russia and the U.S. response. The video clip is embedded below: