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May 24, 2013

CUBA CENTRAL News Blast: Holiday Edition: Memorial Day, Obama, and Cuba

This weekend in the U.S., we celebrate Memorial Day.  Started in 1868, following the Civil War,  this holiday has served as an annual remembrance of the nation’s war dead.  Flowers and American flags are placed at grave sites of service members who were casualties in the nation’s wars.  It was… read more »

April 8, 2013

Castor returns from Cuba, calls for end to trade embargo

Bay News – U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor has returned from a four-day trip to Cuba. The Democrat from Tampa says America’s trade embargo on the island nation should end, saying “it’s time to try something new.” She is the second member of Congress from Florida to visit Raul Castro’s country… read more »

March 19, 2013

Alan Gross tells all

The truth might not make Alan Gross free, but the truth underlying his arrest, conviction, and imprisonment is essential for understanding his plight.  The truth is coming out; not, regrettably, from the U.S. government, which sent him on his ill-fated mission, but via documents filed in U.S. District Court. As… read more »

January 26, 2013

Could Kerry, Hagel Drive Reboot in US-Cuba Ties?

Paul Haven, Associated Press – The nominee for U.S. Secretary of State, Sen. John Kerry, once held up millions of dollars in funding for secretive U.S. democracy-building programs in Cuba. Defense Secretary hopeful Chuck Hagel has called the U.S. embargo against the communist-run island “nonsensical” and anachronistic. Both men are… read more »

December 14, 2012

CUBA CENTRAL News Blast: Advice and Dissent: What Happens on Cuba if John Kerry and Chuck Hagel Join Obama’s Cabinet?

The staff of the Center for Democracy in the Americas wishes to acknowledge the horrific gun tragedy that took place in Connecticut today, offer our condolences to the families affected by the violence, and remember that this is the eighth mass shooting that we have experienced in the U.S. this year. The… read more »

November 9, 2012

On Next Week’s Vote (the U.N.) and Last Week’s Vote (the U.S.)

On November 13th, the U.N. General Assembly will vote on a resolution titled the “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.” The General Assembly has voted against U.S. policy for twenty straight years.  In 2011, the resolution passed by… read more »

September 21, 2012

CUBA CENTRAL Newsblast: Cuba and Russia, a tale of two USAID programs; Obama Moves on Terror List (Not on Cuba)

*** As we published this week’s blast, news alerts were issued that the “People’s Mujehedeen,” or MEK, is being removed from the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations, based in part, the NY Times is reporting, on the MEK’s cooperation in moving 3,000 of its members out of its long… read more »

June 2, 2012

Mariela Castro hopes Cuban-U.S. relations can normalize in Obama second term

Byron Tau, Politico-Mariela Castro, daughter of Cuban head of state Raul Castro, said that she hoped Cuban-U.S. relations could normalize if President Obama wins a second term. In a forthcoming interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour shared with POLITCO, Castro was asked about the possibilities for political reconciliation between the two… read more »

June 1, 2012

A Failure to Communicate

Fulton Armstrong – who helped run Cuba policy during the Clinton administration and opposed its subsequent decline during the Bush years as a senior aide on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — reports here on a troubling development under the Obama administration; namely, its opposition to the role that the… read more »

May 23, 2012

CDA in the news: Improved relations with Cuba would benefit U.S.

Sarah Stephens and Philip Brenner, Politico- The Obama administration, in a stunning turn of events, is using authority under a Reagan-era proclamation to bar some of Cuba’s most vibrant and candid intellectuals from entering the United States. This decision prevents these leading academics from attending a Latin America Studies Association… read more »

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