| 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
6/10/09- Newest spy case could hamper U.S.-Cuba talks, Wayne Smith quoted in the Miami Herald
6/4/09- OAS lifts 47-year old suspension of Cuba, Wayne Smith quoted in CNN
6/4/09- Obama overtures to Cuba overtaken as OAS votes to engage regime, Wayne Smith quoted in Bloomberg
6/2/09- US-Cuba: Obama still moving cautiously toward normalisation, Wayne Smith quoted in IPS
6/1/09- U.S.-Cuba politics play out at OAS gathering, Wayne Smith quoted in New America Media
5/17/09- No bloom yet in U.S.-Cuba ties after April overtures, Wayne Smith quoted in Reuters
5/1/09 - Canje será "clave" (exchange will be "critical"), Wayne Smith quoted in BBC Mundo
4/15/09 - Cuba shift draws criticisms from all sides, Wayne Smith quoted in United Press International
4/15/09 - Obama catches heat from all sides for easing travel limits to Cuba, Wayne Smith quoted in The Miami Herald
4/13/09 - Latin leaders will push Obama to end Cuban embargo at summit, Wayne Smith quoted in Bloomberg
4/12/09 - Cubans optomistic that improved relations with U.S. could be near, Wayne Smith quoted in The South Florida Sun Sentinel
April 2009 - Using old friend Cuba as its base, Russia reasserts its Latin influence, Wayne Smith featured in The Washington Diplomat
4/1/09 - Sigue viva la liberalización de viajes a Cuba (The liberalization of Travel to Cuba is still alive), El Nuevo dia
3/11/09 - "Cuba after Castro" Remarks by Wayne Smith at University of Tennessee 'Great Decisions Program' (video)
3/9/09 - Obama's outreach to adversaries takes unexpected turn with Taliban approach, FOX News
3/8/09 - Obama will use spring summit to bring Cuba in from the cold, The Guardian
3/3/09 - Amid a Lackluster Review of His First Year, Cuba's Leader Jolts the Government, New York Times
3/2/09 - Raul Castro shakes up Cuban Cabinet, CNN
1/3/09 - Easing the Cuban Embargo?, ABC News (video)
10/29/08
- Cuba-U.S. Relations
Stuck in Cold War, ABC News (video)
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older quotes, click here)
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
2009
2008
- Return
of the Good Neighbor,
by Wayne Smith (8/14/08)
- Cuba
Rejects Increased Russian-Cuban Military Cooperation, by Wayne Smith (8/13/08)
- What's
Behind News of Russia-Latin America Military Ties?,
response by Wayne Smith in Inter-American Dialogue's Latin American Advisor
(7/31/08)
- The Bush Administration's Handling of Cuba and North Korea and Other Contradictions, by Wayne Smith (7/2/08)
- U.S.-Cuban
Relations: A New Beginning?,
by Wayne Smith (6/20/08)
- Baseless
New Impediments to Family Travel,
by Wayne Smith (6/2/08)
- No
Evidence to Place Cuba on the State Sponsors of Terrorism List, by Wayne Smith
(5/14/08)
- What's
Next for Cuba?, ABC News, interview with Wayne Smith (2/19/08)
- 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
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