Jorge Luis Romeu: Journalism and Cuba Page redball

Jorge Luis Romeu is a Research Professor of Statistics and Operations Research  with the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, L. C. Smith College of Engineering and C.S., and with the Department of Finance, Whitman School of Business, Syracuse University. For fourteen years Romeu was an Associate Professor with the Department of Mathematics SUNY Cortland, retiring emeritus in 1998. Romeu is also an independent Consultant. and a certified industrial statistics, reliability and quality engineer.

Romeu is involved in International Education, in Journalism and in Cuban affairs. As an International Educator, he created and directs the Juarez-Lincoln-Marti International Education Project.   Romeu is also an active newspaper journalist, and a past member of International P.E.N. His articles appear frequently in the United States, both in English and in Spanish, and in newspapers from Mexico and Spain. A selection of his newspaper articles can be found in the Web: in Spanish, and in English.

Romeu has undertaken scholarly research on the topic of a Cuban Transition. His socioeconomic papers and presentations to several international conferences can be found in the Web. His Educational work related to the Cuban problems (and in general) can be found in TrabajosEducacion09.pdf

Romeu has published two short story books in Spanish, under his Pen Name, Beltran de Quiros. The first one, Los Unos, Los Otros y El Seibo, was published in the United States in 1971, while Romeu was still in Cuba. Its stories describe life in the UMAP labor camps in Cuba, between 1966 and 1968. The book has been assessed by Dr. Seymour Menton, in his treatise Prose Fiction of the Cuban Revolution (Texas Press, 1975) as one of the two best short story books on the Cuban Revolution, published outside Cuba (Dr. Menton was not aware, at the time, that Romeu was still living in Cuba). Romeu's second book, La Otra Cara de la Moneda, was published in 1984, after he left Cuba during the Mariel Boatlift of 1980. Both books were edited by Ediciones Universal, Miami, FLA. Romeu has also three On-Line books on Cuba.

Romeu's radio and TV journalism activities include hosting the WXTM-TV3 (NBC) public service television talk show Entre Vecinos, that aired between 2002 and 2005 in Chanel 3, Syracuse NY, every third Sundays of the month. The show dealt with Hispanic issues that affected the Syracuse and Central New York area, and was discontinued for lack of funding. Romeu also produced and directed the short wave weekly radio magazine, Sobremesa (1994-98) on La Voz del CID, a radio station that broadcasted to Cuba from Central America. Romeu also produced monthly interviews and opinion segments for NPR's Morning Edition at WAER (public radio) in Syracuse NY (1991-92). Romeu was for many years a frequent guest panelist of Mesa Redonda, a program of Radio Marti, the short wave station from the Voice of America that broadcasts for Cuba. Romeu has also appeared as invited guest in many other radio station shows, discussing Cuban and Hispanic issues.

Finally, Romeu is also involved with Human Rights activities and organizations. He has been active in the AAAS and in Amnesty International Human Rights (HR) Committees, and has been a Member and Consultant for the American Statistical Association's HR Committee. Romeu was the Chair of the HR Committee for the National Association of Cuban-American Educators (NACAE). He has written extensively about HR problems in Cuba and has presented and published many papers in national and international professional conferences. For more information about Romeu's HR activities consult: HR-CHAPTER Regarding the document La Patria es de Todos and the Varela Project consult: DECLARATION For other links related to Cuban HR consult: CUBANET .

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