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Cuba Archive
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Guantánamo Bay: Closing the GTMO Detention Center is a Wilting Olive Branch to Cuba and the Rest of Latin America
By Phineas Rueckert, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs on June 4, 2013 | No CommentsIn his annual counterterrorism speech on May 23, President Barack Obama again vowed to revamp efforts to close the detention center at the Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba (GTMO). The GTMO detention center, Obama stated, casts the United States as a nation that “flouts the rule of law” and... -
RE: “Smuggling Satellite Dishes into Cuba: Revisiting ‘Operation Surf’”
By Phineas Rueckert, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs on May 23, 2013 | No CommentsTo the editor: Tracy Eaton’s article, “Smuggling Satellite Dishes into Cuba: Revisiting ‘Operation Surf,’” rehashes information about the 2008 U.S.-backed covert operation to smuggle satellite dishes onto the island without sufficiently addressing improvements that have been made to increase Internet and telecommunications access under President Raúl Castro since then. In... -
Videla: Argentine Asesino Dead
By Kimberly Bullard, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs on May 20, 2013 | 1 CommentThe author would like to thank COHA Director Larry Birns and recently appointed COHA trustee, Henry Raymont (formerly with The New York Times and the International Press Service), for their cooperation and sharing their extensive, first-hand expertise of Argentina’s Dirty War. COHA Senior Research Fellow Frederick B. Mills deserves thanks for his... -
The Terrorist List, and Terrorism as Practiced Against Cuba
By Keith Bolender, Guest Scholar at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs on April 22, 2013 | 16 CommentsOf all the components to the United States hostile strategy against Cuba, nothing raises the ire of the Castro government more than its inclusion on the State Department’s list of states that sponsor terrorism. The designation is seen by Havana as an impediment towards improving relations and as a cruel... -
Gitmo Dilemma Remains a Monkey on the Back of U.S. Democracy
By Megan Cowell, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs on April 17, 2013 | 1 CommentSetting the Habitat for Violence Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp detainees have been living in a state of legal limbo and their patience apparently has come to an end. Over the years, there have been repeated complaints from already released prisoners, as well as from the 166 who remain in the... -
Preserving Stability in Cuba After Normalizing Relations with the United States – The Importance of Trading with State-Owned Enterprises
By Dr. Timothy Ashby, Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs on March 29, 2013 | 3 CommentsCuba under Raúl Castro has entered a new period of economic, social, and political transformation. Reforms instituted within the past few years have brought the expansion of private sector entrepreneurial activity, including lifting restrictions on the sales of residential real estate, automobiles, and electronic goods. Additional reforms included, more than...