| 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
04/17/11 - Cubans remember the Bay of Pigs, Wayne Smith quoted in CBC News
03/03/11 - Detained US contractor goes on trial in Cuba, Wayne Smith quoted in The Washington Post, also carried by The Huffington Post, Yahoo, Fox, Miami Herald, Seattle Times.
01/14/11- Washington to relax restrictions on remittances, travel to Cuba, Wayne Smith quoted in CNN
11/22/10- Bitter disappointment for progressive Cuba policy, Wayne Smith quoted in Scoop Independent News
10/01/10- New fears over Cuban plans to drill for oil in 2011, Wayne Smith quoted in St. Petersburg Times
09/29/10- Cuba poised for offshore drilling?, Wayne Smith quoted in Bradenton Post
09/10/10- Castro 'amused' at how remark on Cuban ecomic model was interpreted, Wayne Smith quoted in Bloomberg
08/25/10- La casa blanca insta a Richardson a 'abordar' en Cuba el caso del estadunidense preso en la isla, Wayne Smith quoted in La Jornada
08/25/10- A new era in Cuba-U.S. relations?, Wayne Smith quoted in the Morning Star
08/24/10- Cuba and the Number of 'Political Prisoners', Wayne Smith quoted in the Huffington Post
08/23/10- U.S. reaffirms support for democracy in Cuba, Wayne Smith quoted in the Latin American Herald Tribune
08/13/10- Many happy returns Fidel!, Wayne Smith quoted in the National Post
08/11/10- Fidel Castro appearances blur Cuba reform questions, Wayne Smith quoted on The Vancouver Sun
07/26/10- Looking for a signal, Wayne Smith quoted on The Hawk Eye
07/26/10- Cuba left guessing on Revolution Day as Fidel Castro misses big parade, Wayne Smith quoted on The Guardian
07/09/10- Mr. Obama won't go to Havana - at least, not anytime soon, Wayne Smith quoted on thestar.com
07/08/10- Sources: Spain to accept releasd Cuban prisoners, Wayne Smith quoted on CNN.com
07/08/10- Church: Cuba to free political prisoners, Wayne Smith quoted on CNN.com
07/04/10- Cuba Vows to Release 52 Political Prisoners , Wayne Smith quoted in the Palm Beach Post
07/04/10- Drilling off Cuba could be sticky situation, Wayne Smith quoted in the Palm Beach Post
05/28/10- Fearful Cuba watches, waits for BP oil spill, Wayne Smith quoted in Reuters
05/04/10- Radio, TV Marti seen as bust , Wayne Smith quoted in Inter Press Service
04/26/10- Dissidents steal headlines from Cuban election, Wayne Smith quoted in Washington Post
03/11/10- Cuba experts discuss academic travel to the country for Americans, Wayne Smith quoted in Latin America News Dispatch
03/09/10- Push for student exchanges with Cuba hits obstacles, both political and academic, Wayne Smith quoted in Chronicle of Higher Education
03/09/10- Obama urged to end limits on educational travel to Cuba, Wayne Smith quoted in Latin American Herald Tribune
02/18/10- US-Cuba immigration talks under cloud of mistrust, Wayne Smith quoted in Boston Globe
01/13/10- Bitter words mar new dawn in US-Cuba ties, Wayne Smith quoted in Financial Times
01/08/10- U.S says contractor arrested in Cuba is no spy, Wayne Smith quoted in Miami Herald
01/08/10- Cuba Claims Jailed U.S. Contractor is a Spy?, Wayne Smith quoted in Poder 36
12/30/09- In Cuba, Hopeful Tenor Toward Obama is Ebbing, Wayne Smith quoted in New York Times
08/06/09- Russian oil rigs just 45 miles from Florida?, Wayne Smith quoted in The Christian Science Monitor
06/10/09- Newest spy case could hamper U.S.-Cuba talks, Wayne Smith quoted in the Miami Herald
06/04/09- OAS lifts 47-year old suspension of Cuba, Wayne Smith quoted in CNN
06/04/09- Obama overtures to Cuba overtaken as OAS votes to engage regime, Wayne Smith quoted in Bloomberg
06/02/09- US-Cuba: Obama still moving cautiously toward normalisation, Wayne Smith quoted in IPS
06/01/09- U.S.-Cuba politics play out at OAS gathering, Wayne Smith quoted in New America Media
05/17/09- No bloom yet in U.S.-Cuba ties after April overtures, Wayne Smith quoted in Reuters
05/01/09 - Canje será "clave" (exchange will be "critical"), Wayne Smith quoted in BBC Mundo
04/15/09 - Cuba shift draws criticisms from all sides, Wayne Smith quoted in United Press International
04/15/09 - Obama catches heat from all sides for easing travel limits to Cuba, Wayne Smith quoted in The Miami Herald
04/13/09 - Latin leaders will push Obama to end Cuban embargo at summit, Wayne Smith quoted in Bloomberg
04/12/09 - Cubans optimistic that improved relations with U.S. could be near, Wayne Smith quoted in The South Florida Sun Sentinel
04/09 - Using old friend Cuba as its base, Russia reasserts its Latin influence, Wayne Smith featured in The Washington Diplomat
04/01/09 - Sigue viva la liberalización de viajes a Cuba (The liberalization of Travel to Cuba is still alive), El Nuevo dia
03/11/09 - "Cuba after Castro" Remarks by Wayne Smith at University of Tennessee 'Great Decisions Program' (video)
03/09/09 - Obama's outreach to adversaries takes unexpected turn with Taliban approach, FOX News
03/08/09 - Obama will use spring summit to bring Cuba in from the cold, The Guardian
03/03/09 - Amid a Lackluster Review of His First Year, Cuba's Leader Jolts the Government, New York Times
03/02/09 - Raul Castro shakes up Cuban Cabinet, CNN
01/03/09 - 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 the News
How
Did We Come to This? Commentary on the Bush administration's use of torture
4/10/07
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Articles
by Wayne S. Smith
2011
2010
- The U.S. needs to take steps for change alongside Cuba, by Wayne Smith, The Washington Post (8/11/10)
- Free the Cuban Five!, by Wayne Smith, The Nation (7/13/10)
- Lifting the Restrictions on U.S. Travel to Cuba, by Wayne Smith, New York Times (7/12/10)
- U.S.-Cuba cooperation on Gulf is in our interest, by Wayne Smith, Corpus Christi Caller Times (6/14/10)
- Report on the Conference to Call for the Elimination of Restrictions on Academic and People-to-People Travel to Cuba, International Policy Brief by Wayne Smith and Elizabeth Newhouse (3/10)
- Report on the Conference to Call for Cuba's Removal from the Terrorist List, International Policy Brief by Wayne Smith, Peter Kornbluh, Robert Muse, and Elizabeth Newhouse (3/10)
- CIP Analysts Look at Obama's First Year, by Laura Carlsen, Adam Isacson, Wayne S. Smith, and Tom Barry, CIP Americas Program Commentary (1/27/10)
- Cuba Should Not be on the Terrorist List, International Policy Brief by Wayne S. Smith (1/10)
2009
- The U.S., the Supreme Court and the Case of the Cuban Five, by Wayne Smith, CIP International Policy Brief (7/2009)
- Disaster Relief Management in Cuba, by Jonathan Keyser and Wayne Smith, CIP International Policy Report (5/22/09)
- Reopening Channels of Communication with Cuba, by Wayne Smith, New York Times (5/8/09)
- Time to Abandon Our Failed Cuba Policy, by Wayne Smith, CIP International Policy Brief (4/1/09)
- U.S-Cuba policy: Time to end deceitful travel controls, by Wayne Smith, South Florida Sun Sentinel (3/29/09)
- Time to re-engage Cuba, at last, by Wayne Smith, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1/31/09)
- An Opening to Cuba Can Give Obama Momentum Internationally, by Wayne Smith (1/7/09)
2008
- Escaping Justice: A Conference on Exile Terrorism,
by Wayne Smith (8/18/08)
- 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?,
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 Smith, South
Florida Sun-Sentinel (3/19/08)
- It's
Time to Talk to Cuba, by Wayne Smith, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
(2/24/08)
2007
- Bush's
Speech Only Reiterates Past Ones, by Wayne Smith,
South Florida Sun-Sentinel (10/31/07)
- Race
Sparks New Cuba Thinking, by Wayne Smith, Orlando Sentinel (9/10/07)
- A
Guest Comment: Wayne Smith, by Wayne Smith, Latin America Advisor, (8/28/07)
- 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, by
Wayne Smith, The National Interest (8/6/07)
- Bush's
Action Plan Not Working, by Wayne Smith, Sun-Sentinel (7/22/07)
- Barriers
to change,by Wayne Smith, Guardian Unlimited (7/18/07)
- Cuba:
the Square Peg, by Wayne Smith, Guardian Unlimited (6/7/07)
- The
U.S. Descent Into Torture, by Wayne Smith and Jennifer Schuett, ContraPunto
(6/07)
- 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, by Wayne Smith, Baltimore Sun (4/30/2007)
- Emergency
Press Conference on Luis Posada Carriles, National Committee to Free
the Cuban Five (4/1//2007) (audio)
- No
Man Is An Island, letter by Wayne Smith, 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 (3/07)
- Bush's
Delusional Cuba Policy, by Wayne Smith, The Washington Post
(3/5/07)
- Worst
of the Presidents?, by Wayne Smith, ContraPunto de América Latina
(1/07)
- Shelter
Terrorists and We Damage Credibility, by Wayne Smith, 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, by Wayne Smith, op-ed in South Florida Sun-Sentinel
(8/2/06)
- Bush's
Knee-Jerk Rejection of Negotiations, by Wayne Smith, op-ed in 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, by Wayne Smith in South Florida Sun-Sentinel (3/31/06)
- Human
Rights Violators, by Wayne Smith, op-ed in New York Times (3/18/06)
- Giving
Mexico the business, by Wayne Smith in South Florida Sun-Sentinel (2/24/06)
- Bush
and the Waning U.S. Position in Latin America, (unpublished) (2/14/06)
- U.S.-Venezuelan
Relations, submitted to Washington Post (unpublished) (2/10/06)
- U.S.
Policy's Effect the Opposite of Goal, by Wayne Smith in South Florida Sun Sentinel
(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, (1/06)
- Let
'em play ball, by Wayne Smith, op-ed in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, (1/10/06)
2005
- Bullying
Cuba Out of the Ballpark, by Wayne S. Smith, op-ed 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, by Wayne Smith, South Florida Sun-Sentinel (10/27/05)
- Investigation
Needed, by Wayne Smith, South Florida Sun-Sentinel (6/11/05)
- Is
Cuba a sponsor of terrorism? Is U.S.?, by Wayne Smith South Florida Sun-Sentinel
(5/7/05)
- To
Advance Rights, Lead by Example, letter by Wayne Smith, New York Times
(2/16/05)
- Cuba,
North Korea and the University of Miami's Unfortunate Analysis by Wayne Smith, CubaNews (2/15/05)
- Not
What U.S. is Supposed to Be About, by Wayne Smith, South Florida Sun-Sentinel (2/4/05)
- Our
Cuba policy will get U.S. nada, by Wayne Smith, Atlanta Journal-Constitution (2/2/05)
- Our
Own Devil's Island, by Wayne Smith, South Florida Sun-Sentinel (1/12/05)
2004
2003
- Let
Democracy Work, by Wayne Smith (2003)
- Crackdown
in Cuba, by Wayne Smith, The Nation (5/12/03)
- How
not to encourage liberalization in Cuba, by Wayne Smith, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
(4/16/03)
- Provocation,
war spawned Cuba crackdown, by Wayne Smith, Baltimore Sun (4/15/03)
- Why
the Crackdown in Cuba?, by Wayne Smith, LA Times (4/7/03)
- Dismal
diplomacy, by Wayne Smith, Sun Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale (3/27/03)
2002
- Can
new justice tell patriotism from terror?, by Wayne Smith, South Florida
Sun-Sentinel (7/13/02)
- Fidel
Castro is no Osama Bin Laden, by Wayne Smith, Los Angeles Times (6/16/02)
- Who
is a terrorist?, by Wayne Smith, South Florida Sun-Sentinel (5/31/02)
- In
reaching out to Cuba, Carter can bring reform, by Wayne Smith, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
(4/29/02)
- Answer
to Richard Cohen column by Wayne Smith, (3/14/02)
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