article_snippet.sent: Marilu B'Hamel, director of North American affairs at Cuba's foreign trade and investment ministry, said the delegation's visit was .
article_snippet.sent: Cuba's Maria de la Luz B'Hamel, director of the North American Department at Cuba's Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, Carl E. Heastie speaker of the New York Assembly and New York State Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins .
article_snippet.sent: Monday afternoon the delegation of academics and business leaders was in initial talks with Cubans .
article_snippet.sent: with the Foreign Trade and Investment Minister Rodrigo .
highlights_snippet.sent: Heads delegation of 18 New York academics and business leaders .
  