This event will be a lecture by Ambassador Jose Sorzano. Sorzano, who fled Cuba in 1961, is a former professor of Government at Georgetown University and Deputy U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador. In 1987, Sorzano, who had been serving as President of the Cuban-American National Foundation, left to become the Reagan administration's National Security Council specialist on Latin America. From his White House office, Sorzano worked on policy issues such as the Contras, Panamanian drug trafficking, and other issues affecting United States-Latin American relations. In 1988, Sorzano "quit" the NSC in protest.