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Under
the direction of Wayne S. Smith, former Chief of the
U.S. Interests Section in Havana, the Center for International
Policy’s Cuba Program seeks to bring about a more
sensible US policy toward Cuba. There
may have been a time during the Cold War when there
was some rationale for a containment policy, including
an embargo. But, with the end of the Cold War, that
rationale has vanished, and our policy toward Cuba
is now not only obsolete but actually counterproductive
in terms of real US interests and objectives.
Cuba
Program Mission Statement
By
taking fact-finding delegations to Cuba, organizing
conferences on specific issues, inviting Cubans to
express their views in the US, and publishing opinion
pieces which take issue with present rationale, we
hope to educate public opinion and thus policy which
1) begins to dismantle the embargo, 2) initiates a
dialogue with the Cuban government, 3) lifts travel
controls, and 4) carries us eventually toward a full
normalization of relations, which we believe to be
in the best interests of both the American and the
Cuban people.
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CIP's Wayne Smith and Eloy Guitierrez
Menoyo, former political prisoner in Cuba and head
of "Cambio Cubano" |
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Recent
Conferences & Delegations
2007
October
16 - Imperatives for a New Cuba Policy. read
more››
May
24-45 - U.S. - Cuban Hurricane Conference in Monterrey, Mexico.
read more...
February
19-22 - CIP sponsors delegation of prominent trade representatives
to Cuba. read
more››
January
25 - Conference to Call on Congress to Close the Prison at Guantanamo
Bay and Repeal the Military Commissions Act. - more
info
2006
2005
October
- Conference: "A History of Terrorism" in Miami, Florida
- Program
June
- Wayne
Smith visits Cuba and interviews the president of the Cuban
National Assembly, Ricardo Alarcón, about terrorism -
Summary
April
- Conference: "U.S.
Abuse at Guantanamo" - Conference
summary, agenda
and speakers' biographies
2004
October
- Conference: "To Examine the Evidence for Keeping Cuba
on the US List of Terrorist States" [more...];
CIP/Center
for Defense Information (CDI) delegation
May
- Conference: "Commission for a Free Cuba"
April
- Conference: "The Federal Sugar Subsidy Program"
2003
November
- Kansas Wheat Farmers delegation
September
- Senator Baucus and Montana farm delegation
July
- Freedom to Travel to Cuba Forum
April
- Trip with Senator Tom Harkin
March
-
Conference: "Guantanamo Naval Base 100 Years Later: From
Coaling Station to Penal Colony." [more...]
February - Senate staff fact-finding mission to Cuba;
Urbanists International fact-finding mission to Cuba; Georgia
businesses fact-finding mission to Cuba
January
- Cuba exhibit at American Farm Bureau Federation Convention
[more...]
2002
November
- Delegation of former US Senators Dale Bumpers and John
Culver; Houston World Affairs Council fact-finding mission to
Cuba; Fact-finding mission of architects and urban planners
September - Washington D.C. National Summit on Cuba [more...]
July - Kentucky fact-finding mission on seafood purchasing
& transportation infrastructure
June - Kentucky fact-finding mission on banking, transportation
and aquaculture; Georgia Ports Authority and fishing industry
fact-finding mission to Cuba
May - Kentucky Women in Agriculture (KWIA) fact-finding
mission to Cuba
March - Kentucky agribusiness fact-finding mission to
Cuba
January - Travel agents' fact-finding mission on sustainable
tourism in Cuba; Conference on US travel to Cuba: OFAC licensing,
policy and prosecution
2001
November - Conference on the inconsistencies in the US"terrorism
list"
June
- Afro-American Journalists to Cuba; US and Cuban Trademark
Conference
April
- Congressional Delegation to Cuba; Michigan
Farm Bureau Delegation
October - Agricultural
Conference
March - American
Sugar Refiners to Cuba
February - Religious
Leaders to Cuba
Cuba
Program Publications
2007
To
Protect the Gulf of Mexico: U.S.-Cuba Cooperation on Marine
Conservation, International Policy Report by Wayne Smith
and Jennifer Schuett, December 2007 [PDF
format]
Ever
Changing, Always the Same: The State of U.S.-Cuban Relations,
International Policy Report by Wayne Smith and Jennifer Schuett,
December 2007 [PDF format]
Facing
the Storms Together: CIP convenes first U.S. - Cuba hurricane
conference, International Policy
Report by Wayne Smith and Jennifer Schuett, August 2007 [PDF
format]
Torture,
Terror and Innocence: Why the prison at Guantanamo must be closed,
International Policy Report by Jennifer
Schuett and Abigail Poe, July 2007 [PDF format]
2006
Sanctuary
for Terrorists?, International Policy
Report by Wayne S. Smith, Shauna Harrison and Sheree Adams,
January 2006 [PDF format]
2005
"Guantanamo: Our Own Devil's
Island?" International Policy Report by Tiana S. Gierke,
May 2005 [PDF format]
2004
"Cuba
Should Not be on the Terrorist List" International
Policy Report by Wayne S. Smith, Robert Muse, and Glenn Baker,
November 2004 [PDF format]
"Commission
for a Free Cuba Sets Restrictions on Americans" International
Policy Report by Wayne S. Smith and Seema Patel, June 2004 [PDF
format]
"A Time for
Change: The Outrageous Federal Sugar Subsidy Program"
International Policy Report by Wayne Smith, June 2004 [PDF format]
2003
"Freedom
to Travel to Cuba" International Policy Report by Anya
Landau and Sarah Stephens, September 2003 [PDF format]
2002
"Cuba
on the Terrorist List: In Defense of the Nation or Domestic Political
Calculation?" International Policy Report by Anya K.
Landau and Wayne S. Smith, November 2002 [PDF format]
2001
"
Keeping Things in Perspective: Cuba and the Question of International
Terrorism," A special CIP report by Anya K. Landau and
Wayne S. Smith, November 20, 2001 [PDF format]
"End the Travel
Ban to Cuba," International Policy Report by Wayne S.
Smith, Nov. 2001
"American
Trademarks Threatened: Conferees Call for Repeal of Section 211
Aimed at Cuba," International Policy Report by Anya K.
Landau and Wayne S. Smith, September 2001
"
Conference Probes Potential for U.S.-Cuba Farm Trade,"
International Policy Report by Kimberly L. Waldner and Wayne S.
Smith, February 2001
1999
"Afro-Cubans
in Cuban Society," International Policy Report by Wayne
S. Smith, Dec. 1999.
"European
Union-U.S. Understanding Fails to Resolve Dispute Over Helms-Burton
Act," the CIP International Policy Report published in
March 1999.
1998
"Nonissue:
Cuba's Mothballed Nuclear Power Plant," by Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado,
July 1998
"Cuba:
Lost Opportunities for Cooperation on Drugs," by Wayne
S. Smith, April 1998.
"Wanted:
A Logical Cuba Policy," International Policy Report by
Wayne S. Smith, Feb. 1998.
1997
Helms-Burton:
A Loose Canon? International Policy Report on the Recent CIP-sponsored
Conference.
1996
"Radio
Days," a commentary on US government broadcasting to Cuba
by CIP Associate Nita Rous Manitzas.
"The many sins of the Helms-Burton law,"an op-ed by
CIP Senior Fellow Wayne S. Smith which appeared in the Toronto
Globe and Mail on July 1, 1996.
"The
US - Cuba Imbroglio," the International Policy Report
CIP published in May 1996.
"Cuba's Long Reform," An article by CIP Senior Fellow
Wayne S. Smith appearing in Foreign Affairs, Volume 75, No.2,
March/April 1996.
"Isn't It About Time for Washington to Accept That Castro
Is in Power?" op-ed from CIP Senior Fellow Wayne S. Smith
from the Los Angeles Times, January 14, 1996.
Statement of Senior Fellow Wayne S. Smith on implementation of
the Helms-Burton law, given following a conference CIP held with
the Institute for European Relations in Latin America in Barcelona
on July 12, 1996.
The Summary Document from "Helms-Burton Legislation: Legal
and Commercial Implications," a conference co-hosted by CIP
and FOCAL in Ottawa, Canada on May 16-17, 1996.
1995
"Human
Rights in Cuba,"the CIP International Policy Report published
in September 1995.
1994
"Our
Cuba Diplomacy," International Policy Report, October
1994.
"The Travel
Ban to Cuba,International Policy Report, May 1994.
1993
"Cuba
After the Cold War," International Policy Report, March 1993.
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