Author Archives: Philip Peters
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Cuba — How Scared Should We Be?
March 16, 2007- Philip Peters According to a defector, Cuba has a secret, underground laboratory southeast of Havana called ”Labor Uno,” where biological agents — ”viruses and bacteria and dangerous sicknesses” — are being developed for military use. The administration calls Cuba a ”state sponsor [Read More...] -
Cuba’s Small Entrepreneurs: Down But Not Out
September 30, 2006- Philip Peters School’s out in Havana, and Ricardo, a mechanic who quit his government job, gets busy in his driveway making milkshakes and money. Students in uniform line up as he spoons mango slices, powdered milk, ice, water, and sugar into his [Read More...] -
U.S. Sanctions Against Cuba: A Just War Perspective
August 5, 2006- Philip Peters “U.S. Sanctions Against Cuba: A Just War Perspective” Presented to the XVI Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (Miami) by Philip Peters August 5, 2006 A friend who worked in the Administration told me [Read More...] -
El club de los enganados
March 13, 2006- Philip Peters Para ”proteger nuestro sistema de educación” del espionaje cubano, el representante estatal David Rivera propone prohibir los viajes académicos de las universidades floridanas a Cuba. No importa que los dos profesores de la Universidad Internacional de la Florida que preocupan [Read More...] -
Ambiguous Policy Has Clearly Bad Results
November 25, 2005- Philip Peters Now that lawyers for two deceased Cuban migrants may sue the U.S. Coast Guard in federal court, it is worth looking at migration across the Florida straits from the Coast Guard’s point of view. The loss of Isabel Menendez, 74, [Read More...] -
New Moves Could End Investment Slump
February 2, 2005- Philip Peters Article Published in The Miami Herald The diplomatic thaw between Cuba and the European Union has received lots of attention, but its impact is not likely to be dramatic. Official contacts will resume and European contacts with Cuban dissidents will [Read More...] -
Seeking Votes by Injuring Cubans
July 23, 2004- Philip Peters Events in Iraq have overshadowed a new, 500-page Bush Administration plan to bring about regime change closer to home: in Cuba. It’s a remarkable plan that casts aside a tool that Democratic and Republican Presidents have long used to open [Read More...] -
Cutting Losses: Cuba Downsizes Its Sugar Industry
December 1, 2003- Philip Peters The May 2002 announcement that Cuba would dramatically downsize its sugar industry made definitive a change that had been coming for years, and was forced by international market conditions. With sugar prices falling steadily, and having lost the Soviet bloc [Read More...] -
The Value of Engagement with Cuba
September 4, 2003- Philip Peters Presentation Statement before the Committee on Finance United States Senate Mr. Chairman, Members of the Committee: Thank you for inviting me to testify on a subject of great importance to American foreign policy in this hemisphere: United States relations with [Read More...] -
Preparing for a New Reality
September 1, 2003- Philip Peters Article Published in the Latin Finance A post-Castro Cuba is an opportunity for the United States to fill a void for people living in an economic limbo. Washington should emphasize freer communication now to prepare for life without Casto, writes [Read More...]