Marine science collaboration endures despite political chill between U.S., Cuba
Marine science collaboration endures despite political chill between U.S., Cuba
Paul Guzzo
Times staff writer
Published: March 5, 2018
Updated: March 7, 2018 at 04:44 PM
FORT LAUDERDALE On Monday, the day the United States made permanent the gutting of its embassy staff in Cuba, 80 environmental leaders from the two nations gathered in Fort Lauderdale to talk about working together.
Politics, said the government officials, academics and scientists in attendance, will not stand in the way of mutual efforts to protect the bodies of water that link the two nations.
"We cant stop, and we wont stop," Dan Whittle, with the New York-based Environmental Defense Fund, told the The Florida Straits Conference at Nova Southeastern University.
Whittle admitted with a chuckle later that his call to solidarity was borrowed from a Miley Cyrus lyric, taught to him by an intern. But his message was serious.
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