Author Archives: Philip Peters
Models of Engagement: How Foreign Projects Work in Cuba
Research Study
International engagement with Cuba is limited by many factors: the relatively narrow scope of projects of interest to Cuban authorities, the lack of independent Cuban organizations that can enter international partnerships on their own, Cuban centralization and bureaucracy, [Read More...]
Models of Engagement: How Foreign Projects Work in Cuba
International engagement with Cuba is limited by many factors: the relatively narrow scope of projects of interest to Cuban authorities, the lack of independent Cuban organizations that can enter international partnerships on their own, Cuban centralization and bureaucracy, and the [Read More...]
What to Do About Cuba?
Op Ed Published in The Miami Herald
The Bush Administration is a bind over Cuba. President Bush is preparing to announce a policy response tomorrow, which is Cuban Independence Day. But with 75 dissidents recently jailed in Cuba, Bush’s goal [Read More...]
Ban Undercuts Our Influence On Cuba
Op Ed Published in The Dallas Morning News
In many meetings in Havana over the past two years, I have come to know and admire the top activists in Cuba’s fledgling democratic opposition – people who struggle to be heard [Read More...]
International Tourism: The New Engine of Cuba’s Economy
Cuba’s budding tourism industry, built during the 1990’s, has replaced sugar as the island’s top foreign exchange earner. In contrast to sugar, tourism is based on sound competitive advantages, and it has the potential to generate additional growth, income, and [Read More...]
Agricultural Sales to Cuba Serve American Farmers
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Thanks to a law passed in 2000, American farmers have made more than $100 million in sales to Cuba since last fall.
This week in Havana, farm products from 32 states will be on display at [Read More...]
Cuba, the Embargo, and American Travel: The State Department’s Distorted Vision
Issue Brief
On the eve of Congressional consideration of amendments affecting U.S. economic sanctions against Cuba, the State Department has released a 20-page “white paper” to bolster its point of view. The paper may well reveal the Administration’s real reason [Read More...]
Radio Marti’s Shrinking Audience and What to Do About It
Testimony
Madam Chairman, members of the subcommittee:
I thank you for inviting me here today and I applaud your decision to exercise long-needed oversight of our government’s broadcasting to Cuba.
Radio Marti’s audience share has plummeted to five percent in [Read More...]
Survival Story: Cuba’s Economy in the Post-Soviet Decade
One decade ago, the demise of the Soviet Union and its socialist economic bloc plunged Cuba into an economic crisis that many observers believed it would not survive.
The Soviet subsidy to Cuba’s economy, one fourth of Cuba’s national income, [Read More...]
Cuba, the Terrorism List, and What the United States Should Do
Issue Brief
Summary
Since 1982 Cuba has been named a “state sponsor of terrorism” by the State Department and is accused of supporting terrorism by myriad unofficial sources. In contrast to its depiction of the six other countries on the [Read More...]