{"id":348913,"date":"2026-07-22T19:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348913\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T19:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:24:10","slug":"american-museum-of-the-cuban-diaspora-hosts-forum-on-islands-transition-to-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348913\/","title":{"rendered":"American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora hosts forum on island\u2019s \u2018transition to Democracy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 22, 2026 at 2:58 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ABDNRXGUDB6GO2J6KMHPP3IVFA.jpg\"  width=\"8147\" height=\"4582\"\/>People collect water from a street tap during a blackout in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. (AP Photo\/Ramon Espinosa) (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All right reserved) (Ramon Espinosa\/AP Photo\/Ramon Espinosa) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 Attorney Marcell Felipe welcomed a group of experts on Wednesday to the American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora in Miami. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Felipe, the chairman of the museum, co-hosted a forum that focused on \u201cRebuilding Cuba\u2019s infrastructure as part of the transition to Democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The list of experts included Sebasti\u00e1n Arcos, of Florida International University\u2019s Institute for Cuban Studies; Helena Solo-Gabriele, an engineer and University of Miami professor; and Jorge Pi\u00f1\u00f3n, of the University of Texas at Austin\u2019s Energy Institute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Felipe is the founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inspireamerica.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.inspireamerica.com\/\">Inspire America Foundation<\/a>, which supports The <a href=\"https:\/\/panthernow.com\/2020\/01\/13\/ideas-for-cuban-democracy-discussed-at-state-of-the-world-panel\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/panthernow.com\/2020\/01\/13\/ideas-for-cuban-democracy-discussed-at-state-of-the-world-panel\/\">Initiative for Democratic and Economic Alternatives (IDEAs) for Cuba<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related reports<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/RMNYO7EBFIPJ3ACZTEPCSIOGKA.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Cuba Water A man pushes a cart of empty containers to fill with water in Havana, Cuba, Friday, June 12, 2026. (AP Photo\/Ramon Espinosa) (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All right reserved) (Ramon Espinosa\/AP Photo\/Ramon Espinosa) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 22, 2026 at 2:58 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandPeople collect water from a street tap during a blackout in Havana,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-348913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}