Graciela Chailloux Laffita

Graciela Chailloux Laffita is an AfroCuban, an adjunt professor of economics at the University of Havana and a senior researcher at the Don Fernando Ortiz Casa de Altos Estudios. She was professor of Cuban economic history during 1972-83 and since then has been a senior researcher at the Center for the Study of the United States in Havana. She has lectured at universities in the United States, Spain, Ecuador, the West Indies and Cuba, and won grants won such institutions as the University of Texas and Johns Hopkins university. Her publications include Globalizacion y conflicto Cuba-EEUU, and Cuba: El periodo especial.