MILITARY AID OR KILLER DEAL: U.S. WEAPONS TRADE AND MILITARY TRAINING IN THE CARIBBEAN, 1790 - 2001 Guest Speaker: Dr. Humberto Garcia Muñiz

INTRODUCTION by Dr. Felix Matos-Rodríquez

It is my pleasure to introduce Dr. Humberto Garcia Muñiz who is a researcher at the Instituto de Estudios del Caribe at the University of Puerto Rico and is visiting this semester at Rutgers University. Dr. Garcia Muñiz is an historian and he is one of the most renowned military experts in the Caribbean. His book, La estragédica de los estados unidos y la militarización del Caribe,is a classic for those who study the U.S. military presence in the Caribbean and he has published extensively on that subject in journals in the U.S., in Europe, Latin America and in Puerto Rico. He is also a scholar of the sugar industry in the Caribbean and his dissertation at Columbia University of the Central Guánica at the beginning of the 20th Century, the worldıs largest central, and the connection of the central with the U.S. and the Dominican Republic, will be hopefully published soon. And so it is a great pleasure to have Humberto with us and the title of the talk is -- this is my translation of the Spanish title -- Military Aid or Killer Deal: U.S. Weapons Trade and Military Training in the Caribbean, 1790 - 2001. Así que, Humberto, bienvenido.

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