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    Jonathan Showe has traveled to Cuba more than eighty times during the past twelve years, ranking him among America’s most frequent visitors to the forbidden island.  One of her Cabinet Ministers was recently overhead exclaiming “How the hell does this guy Showe keep getting to Cuba?”  Persistence, tenacity, curiosity – and some modest irreverence for U.S. travel restrictions would be the answer.
    

    Upon graduation with a Master’s Degree in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, he joined the Nixon, then Ford, White House where he was involved in the foreign economic policy of the United States and its international trade negotiations. Subsequent years of work at a leading U.S. multinational corporation involved further analysis and presentations to international businesspeople and shapers of foreign policy.

    Since 1998 Showe’s principal activity has involved Cuba – trying to understand that enigmatic place by being there a lot.  Enigmatic because it is much more than a place; indeed, it is a state of mind.  With the skills of observation accumulated and sharpened during a career of forty years in the international realm, he has a keen ability to weave disparate threads into a fabric of clarity and understanding.