Immigrant Rights -- Scope, Limits, and Implications
by Tom Barry
Mar-30-2012 | Report
Tom Barry explores the complicated and controversial subject of immigrant rights... Read More »
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The 2013 State Department and Foreign Operations Aid Request and Latin America and the Caribbean
by Abigail Poe
Mar-01-2012 | Fact Sheet
On February 13, the Obama administration released its 2013 budget request to Congress, which includes its request for State Department and Foreign Operations assistance in FY2013. Here are a few things we observed in the new foreign assistance budget for Latin America and the Caribbean. ... Read More »
Waiting for Consolidation: Monitoring Colombiaʼs U.S.-aided Counterinsurgency and Development Program
by Abigail Poe, Adam Isacson, Yamile Salinas, Nancy Sánchez
Feb-01-2012 | Report
During 2011, researchers from CIP, WOLA, INDEPAZ and MINGA carried out a joint project to monitor the Colombian Government's National Territorial Consolidation Plan (PNCT). This new publication lays out our organizations' principal findings, concerns and recommendations following our research visits.... Read More »
Katrina Veterans Learn About Cuba's Hurricane Management
Dec-23-2011 | Report
In early December, the Center for International Policy’s Cuba Project took Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré (ret.), “the hero of Katrina,” to Cuba to look at how the Cubans prepare for and respond to hurricanes and other natural disasters. In 2005, the commander of the U.S. First Army, General Honoré arrived in New Orleans as head of the Joint Task Force Katrina and turned around the disintegrating situation.... Read More »
Questions of Racial Identity, Racism and anti-Racist Policies in Cuba: The View from Havana
Dec-19-2011 | Report
A report from Elizabeth Newhouse summarizing the events of a Oct. delegation to Cuba that focused on the issue of racism in Cuba... Read More »
More Lessons from Cuba's Hurricane Preparedness and Civil Defense
Dec-05-2011 | Report
Elizabeth Newhouse summarizes CIP's November 2011 delegation to cuba, which included the mayor of Galveston, Texas, and the Dean of the Texas State Senate... Read More »
A Cautionary Tale
by Adam Isacson, Lisa Haugaard, Jennifer Johnson
Nov-10-2011 | Report
The Latin America Working Group, the Center for International Policy and the Washington Office on Latin America release a new report on the Colombian experience of the past ten years. ... Read More »
U.S. Drug War Turns to Transnational Combat
by Tom Barry
Sep-01-2011 | Report
The Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime, released in late July by the White House, offers the strategic context for the increasing rhetorical focus of the Obama administration on “transnational crime,” “transnational threats,” and “transnational criminal organizations.”... Read More »
U.S. - Cuban Cooperation in Defending Against Hurricanes
by Fiorella Mejia
Aug-15-2011 | Conference Report
On July 21, 2011, CIP and the Association of Gulf Coast Emergency Managers hosted a half-day conference on “U.S.-Cuban Cooperation in Defending Against Hurricanes” in Biloxi, Mississippi. ... Read More »
Cuba not a "Tier Three" Human Trafficker
by Wayne Smith
Jul-12-2011 | Policy Brief
Wayne Smith argues that this year's State Department Trafficking in Persons Report wrongly portrays Cuba as a tier three violator. ... Read More »
