Who we are

Cuba Trade & Investment News is a monthly newsletter keeping track of the Cuban economy, U.S. policy vis-a-vis the island, and U.S. and other companies doing business with Cuba.

CTIN has been published since 1998 by Tampa, FL-based North American Partners (NAP).

The people behind the enterprise are:

•publisher Andrew Goddard, a Tampa-based trade expert focusing on Latin America;

•editor Johannes Werner, a Florida-based journalist with a decade of experience covering business in the United States and Latin America; and

•several columnists, including Kirby Jones, Paolo Spadoni and Phil Peters.

Our editorial advisory board includes

•Chris Aberle (director of sales, FCStone Group, Des Moines, a commodity risk management company that has sold $95 million worth of corn, soybeans and wheat to Cuba)

•Michelle S. Butler (CEO, Navarretta Group, San Diego. She helped put together one of the first direct, substantial sales by a U.S. medical company to Cuba)

•Jorge A. Echave (general manager, Vitality Foodservice, Dade City, Fla, a $200 million-plus supplier and distributor of soft drinks and liquid roast coffee)

•Kirby Jones (founder of the US-Cuba Trade Association and president of Alamar Associates, a Washington, D.C.-based firm that has provided consulting services to U.S. firms interested in trade and business in Cuba since 1974)

•David Lyons (editor, Daily Business Review, Miami. Owned by ALM Media, the Review covers law, real estate and finance in South Florida)

•John McAuliff (executive director, Fund for Reconciliation & Development, New York. The Fund for Reconciliation is a 20-year old non-governmental organization that worked on normalization of U.S. relations with Viet Nam and now does the same with Cuba)

•Phil Peters (director of the Cuba program of the Lexington Institute, a policy research institution based in Arlington, Va., and an advisor to the Cuba Working Group in the U.S. House of Representatives)