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Cuba Study Group Supports Five Economists' Roadmap for Change

Cuba´s Private Sector: Pressure Valve or Engine of Development?

Cuba faces GDP contraction, inflation, and energy crisis. While the state economy deteriorates, the private sector grows and diversifies.

Cuba’s Only Choice: A Deal With Washington Is the Island’s Best Hope

Anything short of that raises the risk of deepening social unrest and U.S. military intervention to stabilize a cratering economy just 90 miles from Florida…

Cuba Review

Everything you need to know about Cuba

Cuba Review offers a concise, evidence-based briefing every week, distilling Cuba’s most significant political, economic, and social developments. Each edition gives you exclusive access to in-depth analysis, expert interviews, and emerging trends — plus the diplomatic and economic insights you won’t find anywhere else. In just five minutes, gain the essential context and data you need to stay informed on the story that matters.

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Our core beliefs

Cuba’s sovereignty

One cuban nation

Respect for human rights

Civil Society

Religious institutions

A Nation Divided Needs Reconciliation

Principled dialogue to solve problems

Economic Engagement

Transition and Transformation

Impact

A leading membership-based, nonpartisan voice on Cuba policy analysis and advocacy, drawing members and partners across the United States, Cuba, and Europe.

For more than two decades, the Cuba Study Group has worked to inform U.S. policy and advance peaceful change in Cuba through principled engagement and support for the Cuban people. Across every administration from George W. Bush to the present, it has built ideas that policy later moved toward, reshaped the Cuban-American conversation, and strengthened Cuba’s private sector.

Shaping U.S. Policy

Put executive authority back at the center of Cuba policy reform, mapping the path to engagement nearly two years before the 2014 opening.

Built the case against the 2004 travel and remittance restrictions that shaped the 2009 decision to lift all limits on Cuban-American family travel and remittances.
Steadfast champion of policies that put the well-being of the Cuban people first — urging principled engagement and support for civil society and the private sector over blanket, “sanctions-only” measures.

25 years · 5 U.S. Administrations

Serve as a bridge among policymakers, Cuban American business leaders, scholars, entrepreneurs, and civil society.

Direct support for the 2026 Cuba Transformación economic roadmap initiative
Publish the weekly Cuba Review and Cuba Economic Review newsletters
Co-produced the Pensar Cuba podcast with elTOQUE
A go-to source for journalists across four administrations, bringing evidence-based analysis on engagement, reform, migration, and sanctions into the public debate.

13,000+

Cuba-based entrepreneurs trained

across the island for free through Cuba Emprende — an affiliated initiative that our members helped launch.

Became one of the most consistent U.S. advocates for the financial access — microfinance, trade, and payments — that Cuba’s emerging MIPYME sector needs.
Built an evidence base on the Cuban private sector through rigorous research and ground reporting.

Public Opinion · FIU Cuba Poll

Source: THE FIU CUBA POLL 2024

Help create political space for a pro-private sector Cuban-American perspective.
Has promoted a realist, engagement-based framework for peaceful change across 25 years and five administrations — through openings and rollbacks alike.