CUBA REVIEW: Has Anything Improved Under Trump’s Cuba Policy Reversal?

This year, United States policy toward Cuba experienced a dramatic 180-degree turn toward the more bellicose strategies of the pre-Obama era. The pretext was Havana’s support for the Maduro regime. But the policy’s architects had been devising a full rollback of the normalization process that began in 2014 ever since President Trump was elected. For decades, […]

December 15, 2019
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
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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
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2018 FIU Cuba Poll