Twenty years ago, the maroon community of La Bonga in Colombia received a threat signed by paramilitaries. That same night, the entire town fled and La Bonga was devoured by the jungle. La Bonga is a symbolic journey through the jungles of the Colombian Caribbean to resurrect a place that only exists in memory. In an act of resistance, this party lets the loss go, as it celebrates collective memory and community.

Xavier (Atibon Nazaire) is a fiercely hard-working, Haitian-born construction worker tasked with destroying his own neighborhood in a rapidly gentrifying Miami. While yearning to secure a new home for his wife, seamstress Esperance (Sheila Anozier), he finds himself clashing with his son, a college dropout. American-born and largely assimilated, Junior (Chris Renois) is a late-night comedian whose set focuses on the deepening intergenerational chasm that exists within the family. 

Xavier (Atibon Nazaire) is a fiercely hard-working, Haitian-born construction worker tasked with destroying his own neighborhood in a rapidly gentrifying Miami. While yearning to secure a new home for his wife, seamstress Esperance (Sheila Anozier), he finds himself clashing with his son, a college dropout. American-born and largely assimilated, Junior (Chris Renois) is a late-night comedian whose set focuses on the deepening intergenerational chasm that exists within the family. 

Almost a century after the "golden age" of piracy ended, Jean Laffite and his brother Pierre, built a thriving business on the American Gulf Coast through the sale of maritime plunder. As war raged across the Atlantic World from 1789 to 1815, they became notorious as pirates, privateers, smugglers, and slave traders. This presentation strips away the mythology and looks at how the Laffites adapted to the rapidly changing geo-political environment and how the conflicts that enabled them, also became the means of their destruction. Dr.

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Based on a forthcoming book by the author, the presentation first briefly describes the two diverse models and their key policies. The core of the presentation is a comparison of 20 key indicators (ten economic and ten social) of the three countries and their ranking. The conclusion is that China and Vietnam have performed much better than Cuba, despite the fact that the latter was much more developed than the two Asian countries and the time of their respective revolutions.

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