. "Mauricio Sola\u00FAn (born 1935) is a professor of Latin American social and political institutions at the University of Illinois. He holds degrees in law, economics, and sociology from the , Cuba, Yale University, and the University of Chicago, respectively. Sola\u00FAn has been a visiting professor at the Universidad de los Andes and the in Bogot\u00E1, the Universidad de Belgrano in Buenos Aires, and the Universidad Cat\u00F3lica de Valpara\u00EDso in Chile. He has been awarded several international fellowships and research grants, and has been a guest lecturer throughout Latin America and several countries in Europe and Asia. He has organized and directed study/internship programs in Colombia, Chile, Argentina, and Mexico. Sola\u00FAn was the first Cuban-American to serve as a U.S. Ambassador. From September 1977 to February 1979 he served in Nicaragua, where he organized locally a United States-sponsored mediation by the Organization of American States to avert civil war and obtain the peaceful democratization of the country. These international efforts failed in the face of the local unwillingness to compromise, and Sola\u00FAn returned to his university post."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1075031445"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . "Mauricio Sola\u00FAn"@en . . . . . . "12085811"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Mauricio Sola\u00FAn (born 1935) is a professor of Latin American social and political institutions at the University of Illinois. He holds degrees in law, economics, and sociology from the , Cuba, Yale University, and the University of Chicago, respectively."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "4465"^^ . . . . . . . . . "--09-30"^^ . . . . . . .