Jose Azel

Jose Azel is a Cuban exile scholar, currently a Senior Scholar at the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies (ICCAS)[1] at the University of Miami. He is dedicated to in-depth analyses of Cuba’s economic, social, and political state, with a keen interest in post-Castro-Cuba strategies, and has published extensively on Cuba-related topics. Azel is author of Mañana in Cuba: The Legacy of Castroism and Transitional Challenges for Cuba,[2] published in March 2010.[3] Mañana in Cuba has received acclaim from scholars, businessmen, and government officials, including Carlos Alberto Montaner, Carlos Gutierrez, James Cason, and Jaime Suchlicki, among others.

In 2012, Dr. Azel testified before the House of Representative's Committee on Foreign Affairs on the ties between Cuba, Iran, and Venezuela, "Ahmadinejad's Tour of Tyrants and Iran's Agenda in the Western Hemisphere." [4] That same year, Dr. Azel was nominated for the Charles T. Manatt Democracy Award, of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES.)[5]

Azel was one of the founders of Pediatrix Medical Group, the nation’s leading provider of pediatric specialty services and served as its first Chief Financial Officer. He co-founded and serves as Board Chairman of Children’s Center for Development and Behavior, an organization dedicated to providing therapies for children with autism and other pervasive developmental disorders. Azel was an Adjunct Professor of International Business at the School of Business Administration, Department of Management, University of Miami.

He holds undergraduate and master's degrees in business administration and a Ph.D. in International Affairs from the University of Miami. Dr. Azel has a comprehensive general management background integrating broad functional experience in corporate governance, organizational development and finance.

Azel left Cuba in 1961 as a 13-year-old political exile in what has been dubbed Operation Pedro Pan - the largest unaccompanied child refugee movement in the history of the Western Hemisphere.

On February, 2014 Dr. Azel published a book of poems he wrote as a young exile titled "Pedazos y Vacios" [6] The book is dedicated to the children of the Operation Pedro Pan.

On February 26, 2015 Dr. Azel testified before the United States Western Hemisphere Subcommittee of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on President Obama's new Cuba Policy and U.S. National Security.[7]

Publications

"Conflicto Irán - Arabia Saudita" El Nuevo Herald. 2016.[8]

"Cuba and the Angst of Freedom" PanAm Post. 2016.[9]

"US Policy Abandons Cuban Freedom for Mere Stability" PanAm Post. 2016.[10]

"The Cuban Economy Is Still Locked in a Cage" PanAm Post. 2016.[11]

"El ejemplo de Cuba recuerda defender el ‘No a la unanimidad’" El Nuevo Herald. 2016.[12]

"There is No Doing Business in Cuba, Only with Cuba" PanAm Post. 2016.[13]

"Cuba y la angustia de la libertad" El Nuevo Herald. 2016.[14]

"Cuba Immigration: A Nation in Search of a State" PanAm Post. 2016.[15]

"La jaula del autoempleo en Cuba" El Nuevo Herald. 2015. [16] "Triste final para esperanzas exquisitas" El Nuevo Herald. 2015. [17]

"Cuba, tres tristes escenarios" El Nuevo Herald. 2015. [18]

"Cuba: Three Sad Scenarios" PanAm Post. 2015. [19]

"Leave My Little Paper Boat Alone" PanAm Post. 2015. [20]

"Cuba’s “Democratic” Transition to the Perfect Dictatorship" PanAm Post. 2015. [21]

"El ‘Partido Revolucionario Institucional’ cubano" El Nuevo Herald. 2015.[22]

"Pope Francis Resurrects Latin America’s Marxist Faith" PanAm Post. 2015.[23]

"Regreso al futuro: la Teología de la Liberación rehabilitada" El Nuevo Herald. 2015.[24]

"When did ‘freedom’ become a dirty word?" Miami Herald. 2015.[25]

"Libertad, la palabra desaparecida" El Nuevo Herald. 2015.[26]

"Why Flee Equality?" PanAm Post. 2015.[27]

"Huyendo del igualitarismo" El Nuevo Herald. 2015.[28]

"La Iglesia, el Papa Francisco y Cuba" El Nuevo Herald. 2015.[29]

"Historia de dos políticas" El Nuevo Herald. 2015.[30]

"Lo que nunca se debe negociar" El Nuevo Herald. 2015.[31]

"¿Por qué algunos pueblos no se rebelan contra las tiranías?" El Nuevo Herald. 2015.[32]

"Donde los libertarios se equivocan en política exterior" El Nuevo Herald. 2015.[33]

"No es el embargo" El Nuevo Herald. 2015.[34]

"Cuba After the Castros: The Likely Scenario" The Wall Street Journal. 2015.[35]

"American tourists won’t bring democracy to Cuba" Miami Herald. 2015.[36]

"La pobreza no tiene causas…" El Nuevo Herald. 2015.[37]

"El turismo americano no minará al régimen de Castro" El Nuevo Herald. 2015.[38]

"EEUU-Cuba: lecciones de historia" El Nuevo Herald. 2015.[39]

"La resurrección de Neville Chamberlain" El Nuevo Herald. 2015.[40]

"Raúl Castro y el ‘culto a la carga’ " El Nuevo Herald. 2015.[41]

"Te lo dije" El Nuevo Herald. 2015.[42]

"What Would Cuba Do?" Testimony before Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. February 27, 2015.[43]

"¿Negociando la democracia en Cuba?" El Nuevo Herald. 2015.[44]

"New ‘Maceos’ will step up and keep fighting for freedom" Miami Herald. 2015.[45]

"La otra sucesión cubana" El Nuevo Herald. 2014.[46]

"QHC: ¿Qué haría Castro?" El Nuevo Herald. 2014 [47]

"The Brothers Castro have an ‘ah-ha!’ moment" Miami Herald. 2014.[48]

"La anagnórisis de la Isla trágica" El Nuevo Herald. 2014.[49]

"La polarización ideológica de Estados Unidos" El Nuevo Herald. 2014.[50]

"Nosotros, el pueblo" El Nuevo Herald. 2014.[51]

"We — the people — know what’s best" Miami Herald. 2014.[52]

"Sin libertad económica no hay prosperidad" El Nuevo Herald. 2014.[53]

"There’s no prosperity without economic freedom" The Miami Herald. 2014.[54]

"Por qué el gobierno perdió nuestra confianza" El Nuevo Herald. 2014.[55]

"El embargo al gobierno cubano como pretexto ideológico" El Nuevo Herald. 2014.[56]

"Unemployment Benefits: When More Is Not Always Better" PanAm Post. 2014.[57]

"Liberals versus Serviles: Reclaiming the Supremacy of the Individual" PanAm Post. 2014.[58]

"Riesgos de invertir en Cuba" El Nuevo Herald. 2014.[59]

"Una encuesta con otras intenciones" El Nuevo Herald. 2014.[60]

"Beneficios de desempleo: ¿más es mejor siempre?" El Nuevo Herald.2014.[61]

"Liberales y serviles" El Nuevo Herald.2014.[62]

"Leaders Who Fail the Test of Good Governance" Miami Herald. 2013.[63]

"Bienes públicos, no golosinas políticas" El Nuevo Herald. 2013.[64]

"Human rights, whether God-given or not" Miami Herald. 2013.[65]

"¿Cuál es el origen de los derechos humanos?" El Nuevo Herald. 2013.[66]

"‘Show me the money’ foreign policy doesn’t always work" Miami Herald. 2013.[67]

"Reconsiderando nuestra política exterior" El Nuevo Herald. 2013.[68]

"The Illusion of Cuban Reform: Castro Strikes Out" World Affairs Journal. 2013.[69]

"Minimum wage: good intentions, bad policy" The Miami Herald. 2013.[70]

"Salario mínimo: buenas intenciones, mala estrategia" El Nuevo Herald. 2013.[71]

"Oedipus in Havana" The Miami Herald. 2013.[72]

"Edipo en La Habana" El Nuevo Herald. 2013.[73]

"Raul Castro Plots His Endgame" The Miami Herald. 2013 [74]

"Latin America’s ‘Wiki-constitutionalism’" The Miami Herald. 2013 [75]

"El fin del juego a lo Raul Castro" El Nuevo Herald. 2013 [76]

"El Wiki-constitucionalismo latinoamericano" El Nuevo Herald. 2013 [77]

"Government Regulations and Barking Dogs" The Miami Herald. 2013.[78]

“Las regulaciones gubernamentales y nuestras libertades individuales” El Nuevo Herald. 2013.[79]

“Cuba’s Fatal Conceit on Economic Reforms” The Miami Herald. 2012.[80]

“Government Spending: the Parable of the Broken Window” The Miami Herald. 2012.[81]

“La parábola de la ventana rota” El Nuevo Herald. 2012.[82]

“Los hispanos y el legado estatista” El Nuevo Herald. 2012.[83]

“On Hispanic Voters: Battling Spain’s Legacy of Statism.” The Miami Herald. 2012.[84]

“Taxes: Those Who Pay, Those Who Consume.” The Miami Herald. 2012.[85]

“Solucion al 47 por ciento" El Nuevo Herald. 2012.[86]

“La fatal arrogancia del gobierno de Cuba.” El Nuevo Herald. 2012.[87]

"Cuba Slaps Its Own Business Partner.” The Miami Herald. September 3, 2012.[88]

"Con Amigos Como Estos, ¿Quién Necesita Enemigos?" El Nuevo Herald. August 15, 2012.[89]

“The Politics of Bread and Circuses.” The Miami Herald. August 3, 2012.[90]

“La Política de Pan y Circo.” El Nuevo Herald. August 2, 2012.[91]

"Cuba’s 'Habemus Papam." The Miami Herald. June 10, 2012.[92]

"Cuban Embargo and Defending U.S. Property Rights." The Miami Herald. May 20, 2012.[93]

"Taxes, the problem with redistribution of wealth." The Miami Herald. April 16, 2012.[94]

"Church makes dangerous bargain with Castro." The Miami Herald. March 13, 2012.[95]

"Exiliado Fiel." El Nuevo Herald. March 13, 2012.[96]

"Las sanciones económicas a Cuba." El Nuevo Herald. February 24, 2012.[97]

"Ahmadinejad's Tour of Tyrants and Iran's Agenda in the Western Hemisphere." Testimony before the House of Representative's Committee on Foreign Affairs. February 2, 2012.[98]

"(In)justicia redistributiva." El Nuevo Herald. January 19, 2012.[99]

"Decapitating Cubans’ hope for political freedom." The Miami Herald. January 7, 2012.[100]

"The Tehran, Havana, Caracas axis in Latin America." The Miami Herald. December 10, 2011 [101]

"Cuba, la tragedia del colectivismo." El Nuevo Herald. August 16, 2011.[102]

"Los autonomistas cubanos del siglo XXI." El Nuevo Herald. June 4, 2011.[103]

"Cuban Politics Post-Communism." Cuba Focus. Issue 144. June 20, 2011.[104]

"Cambiar para que todo sigue igual." Cuba Sindical. April 26, 2011.[105]

"Cuba and the Tyranny of Groupthink." Cuba Focus. Issue 139. March 14, 2011.[106]

"Surrealismo economico en Cuba." El Nuevo Herald. January 12, 2011.[107]

"So Much for Cuban Economic Reform." WSJ. January 10, 2011.[108]

"New Reforms another Masquerade." The Miami Herald. November 21, 2010.[109]

"Cuba, ¿hacia el capitalismo?" El Nuevo Herald. November 15, 2010.[110]

"Manual for the Perfect Cuba Transition" (in Spanish). El Nuevo Herald. October 15, 2010.[111]

"Spain Leads Charge to Weaken EU's Resolve." The Miami Herald. October 11, 2010.[112]

"Cuba's Pre-existing Condition." Foreign Policy. October 4, 2010.[113]

“Cuba’s Foreign Policy: the Logic of Intransigence.” Cuba Focus. Issue 118. 2010.

“In Defense of Carrots and Sticks.” Cuba Brief. ICCAS. 2009.

“Fidel Plays the Race Card.” Cuba Focus. Issue 108. Cuba Transition Project. ICCAS. 2009.

“Cuban-Americans and the ‘Anti-Embargo’ Poll.” Cuba Focus. Issue 104. Cuba Transition Project. ICCAS. 2009.

“How to Think About Change in Cuba: A Guide for Policymakers.” Cuban Affairs Quarterly Electronic Journal. Volume 3, Issue 3. September 2008.

“Cuban-Americans and Foreign Direct Investments in Post-Castro Cuba: ‘An Ace in the Hole’.” Cuban Affairs Quarterly Electronic Journal. Volume 3, Issue 1. Feb 2008

“In Cuba’s Future: Democracy or Kleptocracy?” Cuba Focus. Issue 97. Cuba Transition Project. ICCAS. 2008.

“After Raul, que?” Cuba Focus, Issue 94. Cuba Transition Project. ICCAS. 2008.

“Investing in Post-Castro Cuba: Are Cuban-Americans the Ace in the Hole?” Cuba Focus, Issue 91. Cuba Transition project. ICCAS. 2008.

“Cuba’s Future: Democratic Reforms Key to Real Change.” Cuba Focus, Issue 90. Cuba Transition Project. ICCAS 2008.

“The CBI and Competitive Strategy: an International Business Perspective.” North South. The Magazine of the Americas. I, no. 2. North-South Center. Coral Gables: University of Miami, August/September 1991.

“The Year(s) After: Long-term impact on Florida due to changes in Cuba.” Cuban Exiles in Florida: Their Presence and Contribution, Antonio Jorge, Jaime Suchlicki, and Adolfo Leyva de Varona, eds., Coral Gables: Research Institute for Cuban Studies, Institute of Interamerican Studies, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Miami, 1991.

“The Promise and the Failure of the Caribbean Basin Initiative,” in Promoting Investment and Exports in the Caribbean Basin. Paper and Proceeding. Washington, D.C.: Organization of American States, 1989.

The Caribbean Basin Initiative: An Assessment. Paper presented at the Sixth Annual Caribbean Basin Conference sponsored by the Department of the Navy in 1988.

“The Caribbean Basin Initiative and its Impact on Latin American Perceptions of the United States,” prepared for Ideas ‘92 2, no.1. North-South Center and Latin American Studies Program. Coral Gables: University of Miami, Fall 1988.

“The Bahamian Elections of 1987: A Preliminary Assessment,” in Latin American Electoral System Project. Institute of Interamerican Studies Graduate School of International Studies. Coral Gables: University of Miami, June 1987.

José Azel, Of Forest and Trees or Should the United States Trade with Cuba, Working Paper Coral Gables: University of Miami Graduate School of International Studies, Institute of Interamerican Studies, 1986.

Editor, IIAS News. Periodical of the Institute of Interamerican Studies, Graduate School of International Studies. Coral Gables: University of Miami, Issues: No.10 (Spring 1986), No.11 (Fall 1987), No.12 (Spring 1988).

References

  1. ↑ Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies
  2. ↑ "Mañana in Cuba: The Legacy of Castroism and Transitional Challenges for Cuba
  3. ↑ Mañana in Cuba:The Legacy of Castroism and Transitional Challenges for Cuba
  4. ↑ "Ahmadinejad's Tour of Tyrants and Iran's Agenda in the Western Hemisphere."
  5. ↑ Charles T. Manatt Democracy Award
  6. ↑ "Pedazos y Vacios"
  7. ↑
  8. ↑ "Conflicto Irán - Arabia Saudita"
  9. ↑ "Cuba and the Angst of Freedom"
  10. ↑ "US Policy Abandons Cuban Freedom for Mere Stability"
  11. ↑ "The Cuban Economy Is Still Locked in a Cage"
  12. ↑ "El ejemplo de Cuba recuerda defender el ‘No a la unanimidad’"
  13. ↑ "There is No Doing Business in Cuba, Only with Cuba"
  14. ↑ "Cuba y la angustia de la libertad"
  15. ↑ "Cuba Immigration: A Nation in Search of a State"
  16. ↑ "La jaula del autoempleo en Cuba"
  17. ↑ "Triste final para esperanzas exquisitas"
  18. ↑ "Cuba, tres tristes escenarios"
  19. ↑ "Cuba: Three Sad Scenarios"
  20. ↑ "Leave My Little Paper Boat Alone"
  21. ↑ "Cuba’s “Democratic” Transition to the Perfect Dictatorship"
  22. ↑ "El ‘Partido Revolucionario Institucional’ cubano"
  23. ↑ "Pope Francis Resurrects Latin America’s Marxist Faith"
  24. ↑ "Regreso al futuro: la Teología de la Liberación rehabilitada"
  25. ↑ "When did ‘freedom’ become a dirty word?"
  26. ↑ "Libertad, la palabra desaparecida"
  27. ↑ "Why Flee Equality?"
  28. ↑ "Huyendo del igualitarismo"
  29. ↑ "La Iglesia, el Papa Francisco y Cuba"
  30. ↑ "Historia de dos políticas"
  31. ↑ "Lo que nunca se debe negociar"
  32. ↑ "¿Por qué algunos pueblos no se rebelan contra las tiranías?"
  33. ↑ "Donde los libertarios se equivocan en política exterior"
  34. ↑ "No es el embargo"
  35. ↑ "Cuba After the Castros: The Likely Scenario"
  36. ↑ "American tourists won’t bring democracy to Cuba"
  37. ↑ "La pobreza no tiene causas…"
  38. ↑ "El turismo americano no minará al régimen de Castro"
  39. ↑ "EEUU-Cuba: lecciones de historia"
  40. ↑ "La resurrección de Neville Chamberlain"
  41. ↑ "Raúl Castro y el ‘culto a la carga’ "
  42. ↑ "Te lo dije"
  43. ↑ "What Would Cuba Do?"
  44. ↑ "¿Negociando la democracia en Cuba?"
  45. ↑ "New ‘Maceos’ will step up and keep fighting for freedom"
  46. ↑ "La otra sucesión cubana"
  47. ↑ "QHC: ¿Qué haría Castro?"
  48. ↑ "The Brothers Castro have an ‘ah-ha!’ moment"
  49. ↑ "La anagnórisis de la Isla trágica"
  50. ↑ "La polarización ideológica de Estados Unidos"
  51. ↑ "Nosotros, el pueblo"
  52. ↑ "We — the people — know what’s best"
  53. ↑ "Sin libertad económica no hay prosperidad"
  54. ↑ "There’s no prosperity without economic freedom"
  55. ↑ "Por qué el gobierno perdió nuestra confianza"
  56. ↑ "El embargo al gobierno cubano como pretexto ideológico"
  57. ↑ "Unemployment Benefits: When More Is Not Always Better"
  58. ↑ "Liberals versus Serviles: Reclaiming the Supremacy of the Individual"
  59. ↑ "Riesgos de invertir en Cuba"
  60. ↑ "Una encuesta con otras intenciones"
  61. ↑ "Beneficios de desempleo: ¿más es mejor siempre?"
  62. ↑ "Liberales y serviles"
  63. ↑ "Leaders Who Fail the Test of Good Governance"
  64. ↑ ""Bienes públicos, no golosinas políticas"
  65. ↑ "Human rights, whether God-given or not"
  66. ↑ "¿Cuál es el origen de los derechos humanos?"
  67. ↑ "‘Show me the money’ foreign policy doesn’t always work"
  68. ↑ "Reconsiderando nuestra política exterior"
  69. ↑ "The Illusion of Cuban Reform: Castro Strikes Out"
  70. ↑ "Minimum wage: good intentions, bad policy"
  71. ↑ "Salario mínimo: buenas intenciones, mala estrategia"
  72. ↑ "Oedipus in Havana"
  73. ↑ "Edipo en La Habana"
  74. ↑ "Raul Castro Plots His Endgame"
  75. ↑ "Latin America’s ‘Wiki-constitutionalism’"
  76. ↑ "El fin del juego a lo Raul Castro"
  77. ↑ "El Wiki-constitucionalismo latinoamericano"
  78. ↑ "Government Regulations and Barking Dogs"
  79. ↑ “Las regulaciones gubernamentales y nuestras libertades individuales”
  80. ↑ “Cuba’s Fatal Conceit on Economic Reforms”
  81. ↑ “Government Spending: the Parable of the Broken Window”
  82. ↑ “La parábola de la ventana rota”
  83. ↑ “Los hispanos y el legado estatista”
  84. ↑ “On Hispanic Voters: Battling Spain’s Legacy of Statism.”
  85. ↑ “Taxes: Those Who Pay, Those Who Consume.”
  86. ↑ “Solucion al 47 por ciento"
  87. ↑ “La fatal arrogancia del gobierno de Cuba.”
  88. ↑ "Cuba Slaps Its Own Business Partner.”
  89. ↑ "Con Amigos Como Estos, ¿Quién Necesita Enemigos?"
  90. ↑ “The Politics of Bread and Circuses.”
  91. ↑ “La Política de Pan y Circo.”
  92. ↑ "Cuba’s 'Habemus Papam."
  93. ↑ "Cuban Embargo and Defending U.S. Property Rights."
  94. ↑ "Taxes, the problem with redistribution of wealth."
  95. ↑ "Church makes dangerous bargain with Castro."
  96. ↑ "Exiliado Fiel."
  97. ↑ "Las sanciones económicas a Cuba."
  98. ↑ "Ahmadinejad's Tour of Tyrants and Iran's Agenda in the Western Hemisphere."
  99. ↑ "(In)justicia redistributiva."
  100. ↑ "Decapitating Cubans’ hope for political freedom."
  101. ↑ "The Tehran, Havana, Caracas axis in Latin America."
  102. ↑ "Cuba, la tragedia del colectivismo."
  103. ↑ "Los autonomistas cubanos del siglo XXI."
  104. ↑ "Cuban Politics Post-Communism."
  105. ↑ "Cuban Politics Post-Communism."
  106. ↑ "Cuba and the Tyranny of Groupthink."
  107. ↑ "Surrealismo economico en Cuba."
  108. ↑ "So Much for Cuban Economic Reform."
  109. ↑ "New Reforms another Masquerade."
  110. ↑ "Cuba, ¿hacia el capitalismo?"
  111. ↑ "Manual for the Perfect Cuba Transition"
  112. ↑ "Spain Leads Charge to Weaken EU's Resolve."
  113. ↑ "Cuba's Pre-existing Condition."

External links

Jose Azel's testimony at the Subcommittee Hearing: The President’s New Cuba Policy and U.S. National Security

ABC Chanel 10 segment "Raul Castro hints at retirement" interview to Dr. Jose Azel (February, 2013)

"The Morality of Capitalism and Ayn Rand" (2013) - Dr. Jose Azel's presentation- http://www.firmaspress.net/eventos/education/130211-ConferenceJaroslavRomanchuck.htm

"The Morality of Capitalism and Ayn Rand" (2013)

NBC 6 “South Florida Today”- an interview with Dr. Jose Azel about Mañana in Cuba

Operation Pedro Pan: A 50 Years Perspective (2011)-

Can Cuba Move Half of its Economy to the ‘Non-State’ Sector? (Latin American Dialogues, 2012)

The United States and Cuba: Implications of an Economic Relationship (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2010)

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