Cuba Policy Report
Issue #27 The Revolution at 50
“I’m dying to get that piece of land over there,” said a sweat-drenched 20-year-old farmworker in Artemisa, Cuba, pointing to a hectare of land where he wants to plant plantains and vegetables next ...
Issue #26 Will Raul Castro Reform Cuba’s Economy?
Talk to anyone who worked with Raul Castro, or anyone clued in to the process that produced Cuba’s economic reforms in the early 1990’s, and you get the same story: that he supported those reforms and is ...
Issue #25 Eight Months and Counting
Fidel Castro’s apparent recuperation sets the stage for a different scenario than that imagined when he fell ill eight months ago. Rather than slowly fade from authority while his successors assume their roles, ...
Issue #24 Thank You and Farewell
"My final battle is nearing its end. I have led the revolutionary struggle for so long that I have seen nine American Presidents leave office. But now it is certain that you will be the one who sees me give up my post in favor of ..."
Issue #23 Happy New Year 2007
Unable to offer the medical analysis and speculation that everyone wants, we are instead passing on some of the more interesting statements from the year just ended. Eight workers in a butcher shop won $22 million each in the Power Ball lottery. ...
Issue #22 Who’s To Blame For Corruption?
Reporters from the Cuban newspaper Juventud Rebelde went to El Manzanares, a Havana cafeteria, in search of petty corruption. They found it easily. Patrons who paid for one-third of a liter of beer were ...
Issue #21 His Own Funeral, with a Front-Row Seat
Did you ever wish you could attend your own funeral to see what people say and do when you're gone? When the world learned last week that Cuban President Fidel Castro's surgery forced him to pass some duties to his brother Raul and other...
Issue #20 Transition: A Second Crack
Why is it necessary for the Administration's inter-agency committee on Cuba policy - the "Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba" - to issue a second report this year? Cuba is not a burning issue in U.S. foreign policy...
Issue #19 Migration Policy and Politics
Cuba's national baseball team was initially refused U.S. permission to travel to Puerto Rico to play in the World Baseball Classic. The decision was later reversed, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said ...
Issue #18 The Long Arm of the Law
The Bush Administration voiced not a word of disapproval, but it sent an unmistakable signal to a recent conference held in Mexico City where American executives and Cuban officials discussed business ...