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About 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 encourage a 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" |
| Recent
Conferences & Delegations
2011 |
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April 18 |
Working Through the Obama Administration’s New Rules Authorizing Academic & “People-To-People” Educational/Cultural Travel to Cuba |
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January 25 |
The United States Should Take Immediate Steps to Improve Relations with Cuba |
2010
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March 9 |
ECDET Conference to Demand the Elimination of Restrictions on Academic and Educational Travel to Cuba |
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January 28 |
To Examine Cuba's Inclusion on the List of Terrorist States |
| 2009 |
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November 23 |
Conference in New Orleans to Discuss Hurricane Preparedness |
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July 2009 |
Delegation to Cuba for Hurricane Preparedness, led by General Russel Honore |
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April 2009 |
Delegation to Cuba for Hurricane Preparedness, led by Galveston, Texas Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas |
| 2008 |
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February 19 |
La Familia Separada: A Conference to Demand the Lifting of Federal Restrictions on Family Travel and Remittances to Cuba |
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April 13-17 |
Disaster Preparedness Delegation to Cuba |
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May 22 |
Escaping Justice: The Story of an Exile Terrorist |
| 2007 | | | October
16 | Imperatives
for a New Cuba Policy(read more) | | May
24-25 | U.S.
- Cuban Hurricane Conference in Monterrey, Mexico (read
more) | | February
19-22 | CIP
sponsors Trade Representatives Delegation to Cuba (read
more) | | January
25 | Conference
to Call on Congress to Close the Prison at Guantanamo Bay and Repeal the Military
Commissions Act (read more) | | 2005 | | | October | A
History of Terrorism: Conference |
| June | Delegation
to Cuba about Terrorism (read
more) | | April |
U.S.
Abuse at Guantanamo: Conference (read
more) |
| 2004 | | | October | Conference
to Examine the Evidence for Keeping Cuba on the U.S. List of Terrorist States
(read
more) | | May | Commission
for a Free Cuba: Conference | | April | The
Federal Sugar Subsidy Program: Conference | | 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."
(read 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 (read
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 (read 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 U.S. travel to Cuba: OFAC licensing, policy and prosecution | | 2001 | | November | Conference
on the inconsistencies in the U.S. "State Sponsors of Terrorism List" | | October | Agricultural
Conference | | June | Afro-American
Journalists to Cuba; U.S. and Cuban Trademark Conference | | April | Congressional
Delegation to Cuba; Michigan Farm Bureau Delegation | | March | American
Sugar Refiners to Cuba | | February | Religious
Leaders to Cuba | |
Cuba
Program Publications
2010
Putting Preparedness Above Politics: U.S. - Cuba Cooperation Against the Threat of Hurricanes, IPR by Elizabeth Newhouse, (1/10)
2009
U.S. Cuban Cooperation in the face of Hurricanes and other Natural Disasters, IPR by Ted Carroll/Wayne Smith, (11/09) Disaster Relief Management in Cuba, IPR by Jonathan Keyser and Wayne Smith, (5/09)
2008
Reducing Risks, Avoiding Disaster, Managing Hurricanes the Cuban Way,IPR Jennifer Schuett/Eva Silkwood (8/08) CIP
Conference Report: Escaping Justice: A Conference on Exile Terrorism (8/08)
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?, 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)
CIP Conference Report:
La Familia Separada: To Demand the Lifting of Federal Restrictions on Family Travel
and Remittances to Cuba (6/2008)
U.S.-Cuban
Relations: A New Beginning?,
by Wayne Smith (6/20/08)
Obama's
Cuba Policy is Perceptive, Not Naive,
by Eva Silkwood (6/19/08)
Bush
Administration Claims that Cuba is a Terrorist State are Unfounded, by Jennifer Schuett and Eva Silkwood (6/12/08)
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)
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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
2001
1999
1998
1997
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
1994
1993 "Cuba
After the Cold War," International Policy Report, March 1993.
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