Cuba
The Administration’s Cuba Family Sanctions: Time for Repeal
Mr. Chairman, members of the Subcommittee: Thank you for inviting me to address the issue of U.S. sanctions that limit Cuban American visits and aid to their family members in Cuba. I oppose all ...
Our Failed, Punitive Policy
Fidel Castro's leaving office on his own terms is not the kind of change that successive American presidents have envisioned for Cuba. In fact, it's a sign that U.S. efforts to isolate that country and bring ...
Issue #26 Will Raul Castro Reform Cuba’s Economy?
Talk to anyone who worked with Raul Castro, or anyone clued in to the process that produced Cuba’s economic reforms in the early 1990’s, and you get the same story: that he supported those reforms and is ...
“True Believer” Leaves Many Questions Unanswered
The 16-year career of Ana Belen Montes as an agent of Cuban intelligence came to a prosaic end the morning of September 21, 2001. Her supervisor at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), where she was...
Issue #25 Eight Months and Counting
Fidel Castro’s apparent recuperation sets the stage for a different scenario than that imagined when he fell ill eight months ago. Rather than slowly fade from authority while his successors assume their roles, ...
Cuba — How Scared Should We Be?
According to a defector, Cuba has a secret, underground laboratory southeast of Havana called ''Labor Uno,'' where biological agents -- ''viruses and bacteria and dangerous sicknesses'' -- are being developed ...
Issue #24 Thank You and Farewell
"My final battle is nearing its end. I have led the revolutionary struggle for so long that I have seen nine American Presidents leave office. But now it is certain that you will be the one who sees me give up my post in favor of ..."
Issue #23 Happy New Year 2007
Unable to offer the medical analysis and speculation that everyone wants, we are instead passing on some of the more interesting statements from the year just ended. Eight workers in a butcher shop won $22 million each in the Power Ball lottery. ...
Issue #22 Who’s To Blame For Corruption?
Reporters from the Cuban newspaper Juventud Rebelde went to El Manzanares, a Havana cafeteria, in search of petty corruption. They found it easily. Patrons who paid for one-third of a liter of beer were ...
Debate: U.S. Engagement with Post-Castro Cuba
U.S.-Cuban relations have been virtually nonexistent since 1961, when the United States assumed a two-pronged policy of economic embargo and diplomatic isolation, neither of which substantially weakened ...