Keylor in Boston Herald on Historic US-Cuba Flight
William Keylor, Professor of International Relations and History at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was recently interviewed on the first commercial flight from the United States to Cuba following a half-century hiatus.
Keylor was quoted in a September 1, 2016 article in the Boston Herald entitled “U.S. Flight to Cuba is Historic.”
From the text of the article:
“It’s a win-win situation for Cuba and the U.S.,” Boston University international relations professor William Keylor told the Herald. “I think it’s going to really improve the relationship between the two countries and put more pressure on the Castro government to loosen up.”
Keylor said the resumed air travel brought with it a “serious challenge” to America’s strict economic embargo of the island nation.
“If we can go there, if you can spend money there, if you can travel there, interact with the people, why not be able to trade with them? Why not be able to export goods to them?” he said.
You can read the entire article here.
Keylor served four consecutive terms as Chairman of the Department of History at Boston University (1988-2000) and has been Director of the International History Institute since 1999. At Boston University, he has received the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Methodist Scholar-Teacher Award. Learn more about him here.