Wayne Smith, senior fellow and director, Cuba program: Smith is a CIP Senior Fellow and directs the Cuba Program and is a contributor to the National Security Program. He is a visiting professor of Latin American studies and Director of the University of Havana exchange Program at Johns Hopkins University. He is a former Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. During his twenty-five years with the State Department (1957-82), he served as executive secretary of President Kennedy's Latin American Task Force and chief of mission at the U.S. Interests Section in Havana. In addition, he served in Argentina, Brazil and the Soviet Union. [more...]

Recent Quotes

4/25/08 - Former U.S. Interest Section head stresses international relations, The Parthenon

3/16/08 - Cuba may be aiding hostages' release, Miami Herald

3/3/08 - Growing U.S. push for change in Cuba ties, despite Bush, Reuters

2/26/08 - Questions Remain on Fidel's Role, Associated Press

2/26/08 - U.S.-Cuba Relations, Washington Post

2/24/08 - Raul Castro confirmed as Cuba's president, CTV

2/20/08 - Cuba without Fidel? It's same old story, Los Angeles Times

2/20/08 - Castro exit unlikely to thaw U.S.-Cuba relations, The Christian Science Monitor

2/20/08 - Fidel Castro resigns as Cuba's leader, Austin American-Statesman

2/20/08 - Who follows Castro?, St. Petersburg Times

2/20/08 - Cubans hope next leader brings economic change, Miami Herald

2/19/08 - What's Next for Cuba?, ABC News, interview with Wayne Smith

2/10/08 - Three possible successors to Castro as president of Cuba, South Florida Sun-Sentinel

1/17/08 - Cuba Policy Remains in Far-Right Hands, IPS

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Comments on Recent News

How Did We Come to This? Commentary on the Bush administration's use of turture 4/10/07

Articles by Wayne S. Smith

2008

Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz allegiance in question, By Wayne S. Smith, South Florida Sun-Sentinel (3/19/08)

It's Time to Talk to Cuba, By Wayne S. Smith, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (2/24/08)

2007

Bush's Speech Only Reiterates Past Ones, by Wayne S. Smith, South Florida Sun-Sentinel (10/31/07)

Close Guantanamo Bay prison, in interest of justice, by Jennifer Schuett, South Florida Sun-Sentinel (10/9/07)

Race Sparks New Cuba Thinking, by Wayne Smith, Orlando Sentinel (9/10/07)

A Guest Comment: Wayne Smith, Latin America Advisor, August 28, 2007

Facing the Storms Together: CIP convenes first U.S. - Cuba hurricane conference, IPR by Wayne Smith and Jennifer Schuett, August 2007

House Democrats Follow Republican Lead on Cuba, by Wayne Smith

Inside Track: Take Cuba Off The Terrorist List, The National Interest, by Wayne Smith (8/6/07)

Bush's Action Plan Not Working, Sun-Sentinel, by Wayne Smith (7/22/07)

Barriers to change, Guardian Unlimited, by Wayne Smith (7/18/07)

Cuba: the Square Peg, Guardian Unlimited, by Wayne Smith (6/7/07)

The U.S. Descent Into Torture, by Wayne Smith and Jennifer Schuett. ContraPunto (6/07)

Pressing for Greater Investment in Countering Hurricanes, El Norte (5/26/07)

U.S. Bending Backwards Not to Extradite, by Wayne Smith. Sun-Sentinel. (5/22/07)

False Tagets Don't Help War on Terror, by Wayne Smith. PostGlobal (5/2/07)

Keeping Academics out of Cuba, Baltimore Sun (4/30/2007)

Emergency Press Conferenece on Luis Posada Carriles, National Committee to Free the Cuban Five (4/1//2007) (audio)

No Man Is An Island, Foreign Policy (March/April 2007)

Symbol of Injustice, by Wayne Smith. Sun-Sentinel. 3/27/07

Should the United States Remove Sanctions on Cuba?, debate by Wayne Smith. The Costco Connection 3/2007

Bush's Delusional Cuba Policy, by Wayne Smith. PostGlobal. The Washington Post 3/5/07

Worst of the Presidents?, by Wayne Smith ContraPunto de América Latina 1/2007

Shelter Terrorists and We Damage Credibility, by Wayne Smith in the Sun-Sentinel. 2/10/07

Castro's Legacy, by Wayne Smith published by the Institute for America's Future. 2/2/07

2006

Let the Cubans Make Plans for Cuba's Future, letter to the editor by Wayne Smith in The Washington Post, 8/27/06

A Bankrupt Cuba Policy, article by Wayne Smith, The Nation 8/28/06

Change must come from internal process, op-ed by Wayne Smith, South Florida Sun-Sentinel 8/2/06

Bush's Knee-Jerk Rejection of Negotiations, op-ed by Wayne Smith, South Florida Sun-Sentinel 6/24/06

Honor the Treaty: Close Guantanamo, response by Wayne Smith to the current state-of-affairs in U.S. inaction towards Guantanamo 5/25/06

Florida bill wrong on several fronts, op-ed by Wayne Smith, Sun-Sentinel 5/13/06

State Department Presents No Evidence that Cuba is a Terrorist State, response by Wayne Smith on the State Department's annual report on "State Sponsors of Terrorism", 5/9/06

Keeping gross violators off new council, South Florida Sun-Sentinel 3/31/06

Human Rights Violators, op-ed in the New York Times 3/18/06

Giving Mexico the business, South Florida Sun-Sentinel 2/24/06

Bush and the Waning U.S. Position in Latin America, (unpublished) 2/14/06

U.S.-Veneuelan Relations, submitted to Washington Post (unpublished) 2/10/06

U.S. Policy's Effect the Opposite of Goal, South Florida Sun Sentinal 2/2/06

Wrong Approach on the Baseball Game, Wayne Smith's response to: Castro at the Bat, by Roberto Gonzalez, New York Times,1/11/06

Sanctuary for Terrorists? International Policy Report by Wayne S. Smith, Shauna Harrison & Sheree Adams, January 2006

Let 'em play ball, op-ed in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 1/10/06

2005

Bullying Cuba Out of the Ballpark, op-ed by Wayne S. Smith in the Baltimore Sun,12/27/05

Briefing on the Status of the Posada Carriles Case, report by Wayne Smith 12/05

Luis Posada Carriles Arrested in Florida, interview with Wayne Smith conducted by Between the Lines' Denise Manzari 12/5/05

Sheltering terrorists, South Florida Sun-Sentinel 10/27/05

Investigation Needed, South Florida Sun-Sentinel 6/11/05

Is Cuba a sponsor of terrorism? Is U.S.?, South Florida Sun-Sentinel 5/7/05

To Advance Rights, Lead by Example - letter to the Editor, New York Times 2/16/05

Cuba, North Korea and the University of Miami's Unfortunate Analysis - February Edition of CubaNews 2/15/05

Not What U.S. is Supposed to Be About, South Florida Sun-Sentinel 2/4/05

Our Cuba policy will get U.S. nada, Atlanta Journal-Constitution 2/2/05

Our Own Devil's Island, South Florida Sun-Sentinel 1/12/05

2004

To Tailor the Truth - Baltimore Sun (12/28)

Relationship could not have been cozier, in South Florida Sun-Sentinel (7/13)

U.S. sets a bad example, - Baltimore Sun (7/7)

2003

Let Democracy Work

Crackdown in Cuba,The Nation (5/12)

How not to encourage liberalization in Cuba, South Florida Sun-Sentinel (4/16)

Provocation, war spawned Cuba crackdown, Baltimore Sun (4/15)

Why the Crackdown in Cuba?, LA Times (4/7)

Dismal diplomacy, Sun Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale (3/27)

2002

Can new justice tell patriotism from terror?, South Florida Sun-Sentinel (7/13)

Fidel Castro is no Osama Bin Laden, Los Angeles Times (6/16)

Who is a terrorist?, South Florida Sun-Sentinel (5/31)

In reaching out to Cuba, Carter can bring reform, Atlanta Journal-Constitution (4/29)

Answer to Richard Cohen column (3/14)