Mark Falcoff is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He has taught at the universities of Illinois, Oregon, and California, Los Angeles, as well as at the U.S. Foreign Service Institute. His books include Small Countries, Large Issues; Panama’s Canal; A Culture of its Own: Taking Latin America Seriously, and Cuba the Morning After: Confronting Castro’s Legacy, to be published in September.

Dennis Hays is executive vice president of the Cuban American National Foundation and director of its Washington office. Now a retired Foreign Service officer, he was posted to the Caribbean, Africa, and South America during his career. His last assignment was as ambassador to the Republic of Suriname. He served as coordinator of Cuban Affairs at the Department of State from 1993 to 1995.

Philip Peters is vice president of the Lexington Institute, a nonpartisan research organization based in Arlington, Virginia. He was a senior aide in the House of Representatives and a State Department appointee of both Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. In recent years, he has specialized in Cuban affairs and traveled throughout the island to monitor the market-based changes in Cuba’s economy. He is an adviser to the Cuba Working Group that formed in January 2002 in the House of Representatives.