Cuba and USA are close geographical neighbors sharing many common historical and cultural roots although being estranged during the latest decades. Strengthening mutual interests for cooperation and finding complementarities in science and knowledge is a clever and human based solution for forging an unavoidable future where both countries and peoples can find a reasonable way of coexistence for the best. Some fields in science, and particularly chemistry, could be points where rational policies can find an opportunity to develop. Intensive use of environmental advantages where one of the countries can provide something missing by the other are examples. Sugar cane as a raw material for many green friendly purposes is ideal, being one of the most efficient plants in nature to recover solar energy to transform it in many different chemical compounds, not only sugar. In addition, several human health issues, the search and synthesis of bioactive substances, basic support to biotech industry, and some fields of the newest material technologies could be important. Chemistry is unavoidably present in practical all possible fields. Chemical education must be ubiquitous relating every effort. Some examples are explained.

Some complementarities where Cuba and US can work together in science

255th National Meeting (2018)

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