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Raul Castro Offers Broad Talks. U.S. Demurs
By Wayne S. Smith On July 26, at the end of the ceremony in Guantanamo marking Revolution Day , Raul Castro, in what seemed to be impromptu remarks, said Cuba is ready to mend fences with the U.S. and...
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Cuba Off the Terrorist List
This is to call the attention of any who missed it to Sarah Stephens’ excellent article in the August 31 edition of Politico entitled “Time to Rethink Cuba Policy.” In it, she reports that with...
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Further on Colombian Peace Talks
Following up on our blog of September 6 (entitled “Cuba Off the Terrorist List”), which dealt largely with the fact that the Colombian Government and the FARC will shortly begin formal peace talks, CIP...
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Romney’s Skewed View
In his October 8 foreign policy speech, Mitt Romney suggested that our Latin American neighbors want to resist the failed system of Fidel Castro and to deepen ties with the U.S., but are uncertain of...
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Cuba Eases Restrictions on Travel Controls: Implications for the United States
As we have all seen, the Cuban government has just announced a significant easing of controls on the travel of Cubans abroad. Most significantly, most Cubans will no longer have to seek prior approval...
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Reflections on the 1962 Missile Crisis
After the Bay of Pigs, as it became increasingly clear that Cuba would have a close relationship with the Soviet Union, it occurred to Khrushchev that perhaps the Soviet Union could place missiles in...
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Hurricane Sandy’s Impact in Cuba
Understandably, all our attention has been on the catastrophic effects of Hurricane Sandy on the Northeastern coast of the United States. Loss of lives and property damage have been appalling. We...
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UN General Assembly Vote on US Economic Sanctions Again Shows The Total...
On November 13th, for the 21st year in a row, the UN General Assembly shot down the United States’ economic sanctions against Cuba in flames. This year, the vote was 188 to 3, with only Israel and...
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U.S.-Cuban Relations and the Gross Case
One often notes a certain surreal quality in U.S.-Cuban relations. Recently, for example, statements out of the State Department have suggested that everything hinges on the Gross case, that the U.S....
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An Isolated and Outdated U.S. Cuba Policy
In what can only be seen as an important victory for Cuba and a rebuff to U.S. policy toward the island nation, on the last weekend in January the Community of Latin American and Caribbean states...
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Is the New Miami Dynamic a Game Changer?
CIP and the Latin America Working Group hosted five Cuban Americans on Capitol Hill—four of them Miamians—in two days of visits and a briefing that highlighted the changing political face...
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Rapprochement With Cuba
The Center for International Policy recently partnered with the Alliance for Responsible Cuba Policy to host Rapprochement With Cuba: Good for Tampa, Good for Florida, Good for America. Representative...
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The Shame and Harm of Keeping Cuba on the Terrorist List
A State Department spokesman stated on May 1 that Washington has no plans to remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism. Hopefully, wiser heads will prevail and it will soon be removed....
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New Rationale for Keeping Cuba on the List?
The U.S. could quickly and painlessly indicate a change in its policy toward Cuba by removing it from the list of “state sponsors of terrorism,” given that there is no valid evidence whatever that Cuba...
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Five Days for the Cuban Five
A press conference held at the National Press Club on Thursday, May 30th marked the beginning of five days of action calling for the release of the “Cuban Five” and fundamental changes in U.S.-Cuba...
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Need for a Sensible Cuba Policy
How times have changed! There was a time when most of the countries in the Western Hemisphere agreed with Washington’s hostile policy toward Cuba and cooperated with it. Now the U.S. is alone. It is...
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