Is Public Comment. Any Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Noapproval of minutes of october 15, 20 2019 and october, 2019. Do we have approval . I raise a motion. Second. Any Public Comment on minutes . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Missione role call . The minutes have been approved. And next agenda item is a report from our executive director wyland. Thank you, president. Good evening, commissioners. So this evening one hav, i havef update for you, but i wanted to circle back on our annual retreat and just do a little afteraction with all of you here. And also let you know well revisit the Mission Vision and values at our next hearing on november 19th, is the idea. And that would come as an action item, where it would, instead of being discussion only tonight, we cant vote on the Mission Vision and values in their draft form but we could do that at the next meeting and we should just to memorialize it. Via email today, i sent you a link to our google acco
Deposition. Next, a discussion about u. S. Relations with cuba. We hear about the impact of the u. S. Embargo, changes in the country over the last five years and how key events perceive Foreign Policy in the u. S. This is an hour and a half. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the institute for policy studies. Some sheet notes here. I should know this i hired. This by heart. The institute for policy studies, for those who dont know, and i should know, but sometimes the wording is a little hard to remember, is a progressive think tank dedicated to building a more equitable and ecologically sustainable and peaceful society, turning transformative policies into action. That is where you are. I am the Events Coordinator here at the institute for policy studies. I will also mention a couple of relevant applications outside. Also, and the international community, and now that the cuban five are free, we work for the end of the u. S. Blockade against cuba and normalizing relations between th
[inaudible conversations] good morning. Welcome to the policy studies with the status of us cuba relations. And for those who dont know sometimes the wording is hard to remember to build more equitable and Peaceful Society those transformative policies into action. And i have the Events Coordinator here and i will also mention some relevant associations to organize for peace justice and community and now for the blockade against cuba and the normalizing of relations and also against all unilateral decisions by extension cuba. And with that current relation of us and cuba with those popular misconceptions and then to hear about the benefits of a normalized relations for both the people of cuba and the people of the United States. But a lot of people know why that mistake happened. But now since 2014 it is now the official embassy. And then we open up her question and answer and then we will be done appointed first secretary june 2015 to the then cuban intersection and worked in the mini
Good morning. Welcome to the policy studies with the status of us cuba relations. And for those who dont know sometimes the wording is hard to remember to build more equitable and Peaceful Society those transformative policies into action. And i have the Events Coordinator here and i will also mention some relevant associations to organize for peace justice and community and now for the blockade against cuba and the normalizing of relations and also against all unilateral decisions by extension cuba. And with that current relation of us and cuba with those popular misconceptions and then to hear about the benefits of a normalized relations for both the people of cuba and the people of the United States. But a lot of people know why that mistake happened. But now since 2014 it is now the official embassy. And then we open up her question and answer and then we will be done appointed first secretary june 2015 to the then cuban intersection and worked in the ministry of Foreign Affairs to
Letelier. At the same time, Ronni Moffitt, a u. S. Citizen, was also killed in this car bomb. All of this happened here in Sheridan Circle in the heart of embassy row in washington, d. C. On that morning, september 21, 1976, Orlando Letelier was an employee of a think tank in washington called the institute for policy studies. He was driving his car to work. He lived in that direction in bethesda, maryland. He came down embassy row, massachusetts avenue, lined with several embassies. In the car with him were two colleagues from ips, Ronni Moffitt and her husband michael moffitt. They turned the corner over here and unbeknownst to them, following them was a gray sedan. In that gray sedan were two cubanamericans who had helped put a bomb underneath the drivers seat in the chevelle that Orlando Letelier was driving. The order to put the bomb in there was given by the secret police of chile, and chile was ruled at the time by pinochet, a dictator, who didnt like the Political Activities th