Cuban Students Speak - DePaul University

03/31/2010 - 7:00pm
03/31/2010 - 9:00pm

DePaul University, Cortelyou Commons

2324 N. Fremont Street

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After a decade marked by frequent visa denials, Cuban students will arrive this week to speak in Chicago on issues affecting young people in Cuba . Yenaivis Fuentes Ascencio, 23, was born in Guantánamo , Cuba . Fuentes completed five years of study at the School of Medical Sciences in Guantánamo and is finishing her sixth and final year of undergraduate medical studies in Havana . Fuentes is serving as the National Public Health Education Coordinator of the Federation of University Students. Aníbal Ramos Socarrás, 30, was born in Manzanillo , Cuba . Ramos is a third-year graduate student in surgery at the Manzanillo School of Medical Sciences at the University of Granma . Ramos served one year in Haiti with a volunteer medical brigade. He is a leader of the Federation of University Students at the School of Medical Sciences in Manzanillo.