CUBA REVIEW: Maximum Pressure, Unintended Outcomes

A year into the U.S. “maximum pressure” campaign against Cuba and Venezuela, what to make of its outcomes? This and more in our first Cuba Review of 2020. (Photo credit: Andrea Hernández Briceño / The Washington Post)

February 2, 2020
US-Cuba Policy’s 2019 Whiplash

WHO WAS INVOLVED: Barack Obama, Cuban President Raúl Castro, Donald Trump and Senator Marco Rubio, a Cuban American conservative from Florida WHAT HAPPENED: On December 17, 2014, Obama and Castro announced the decision to normalize U.S.–Cuba ties. Within a few months, embassies reopened, U.S. business interest in Cuba exploded, and travel to Cuba skyrocketed as commercial flights […]

December 9, 2019
The End of Cuba’s Entrepreneurship Boom
The Fight for the Latino Vote in Florida
Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker September 16, 2019
Statement on New Cuba Sanctions
April 22, 2019
Statement on the Naming of Havana Archbishop Juan de la Caridad García Rodríguez as Cardinal of the Catholic Church
September 3, 2019
2018 FIU Cuba Poll