Cuba
President Obama and Cuba
Article by Philip Peters in the March 2010 issue of Palabra Nueva, the magazine of the Archdiocese of Havana....
Hapless in Havana
Alan P. Gross of Maryland recently had the rare experience of being thrown in jail for doing his job. On Dec. 4, Cuban authorities arrested the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) contractor at Havana's José Martí ...
Time to Lift the Ban on Travel to Cuba
Mr. Chairman, Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen: I applaud you for convening this hearing and I’m pleased to state my strong belief that an end to Cuba travel restrictions is squarely in the United States national interest.
Hugonomics: Venezuela’s fight against poverty, and against the private sector
Hugo Chavez was elected President of Venezuela in 1998 and has proceeded to lead and symbolize a new variant of the Latin American political left. His Bolivarian Revolution and his push toward socialism ...
Raulonomics: Tough Diagnosis and Partial Prescriptions in Raul Castro’s Economic Policies
Cuban President Raul Castro has been at the head of Cuba’s government for nearly three years, as acting President since July 2006 and as President since February 2008. His time in office has been marked ...
TV Marti: An Idea Whose Time Has Come – and Gone
"I support public diplomacy in the large sense of that term, encompassing information and ideas that our government directs to foreign publics; scholarship and visitor programs that give foreign nationals ...."
Diplomacy with Cuba and U.S. National Security
"I believe that a shift toward a policy of engagement with Cuba would serve U.S. interests at a time when our influence in Cuba is low and Cuba is at a turning point in its history. If the Administration and ..."
Options for Engagement: A Resource Guide for Reforming U.S. Policy toward Cuba
For nearly fifty years, the United States has been expecting and, in diverse ways, actively planning for the collapse of Fidel Castro’s government in Cuba. Numerous efforts – from the botched Bay of Pigs and ...
Options for Engagement: A Resource Guide for Reforming U.S. Policy toward Cuba
For nearly fifty years, the United States has been expecting and, in diverse ways, actively planning for the collapse of Fidel Castro’s government in Cuba. Numerous efforts – from the botched Bay of Pigs and ...
Issue #27 The Revolution at 50
“I’m dying to get that piece of land over there,” said a sweat-drenched 20-year-old farmworker in Artemisa, Cuba, pointing to a hectare of land where he wants to plant plantains and vegetables next ...