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Documents : United States : Government
Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba:
Report to the President
Date: 2006/07
Description: The Report opposes a succession process, includes an $80 million-plus fund to boost the opposition to Castro, and makes reference to Cuba-Venezuela relations. The text is accompanied by a two-page ''Compact with the People of Cuba'' that promises to ''work with the Cuban people to attain political and economic liberty'' (http://www.cafc.gov/cafc/rpt/2006/68746.htm).
URL: http://www.cafc.gov/cafc/rpt/2006/68097.htm (English)
Commission for the Assistance to a Free Cuba:
Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba, US State Department
Date: 2004/05/06
Description: Describes the mission, members and tasks of the Commission as well as full report.
URL: http://state.gov/p/wha/rt/cuba/ (English)
Commission for the Assistance to a Free Cuba:
President Bush Discusses Cuban Policy in Rose Garden Speech , The White House
Date: 2003/10/10
Description: The US President announces the creation of a Commission tasked with designing Cuba’s transition to democracy.
URL: http://www.state.gov/p/wha/rls/rm/25154.htm (English)
Congressional Research Service Report to Congress:
Cuba: Issues for the 110th Congress
Date: 2007/05
Description: This CRS report analyzes political developments and political and economic conditions in Cuba since Fidel Castro ceded power to his brother Raul in July 2006. It also describes potential scenarios, human rights situation, US policy toward Cuba, and different issues in US-Cuba relations like, travel ban, agricultural exports, offshore oil sector development, drug interdiction cooperation, terrorism, US funding to support democracy and human rights, Radio and TV Marti, migration, Guantanamo Naval base, as well as legislative initiatives submitted to the Congress.
URL: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33819.pdf (English)
Diplomatic relations:
Press statement: Castro Attacks on Chief of U.S. Interests Section , US State Department
Date: 2003/03/07
Description: In this document, the US government rejects Fidel Castro’s statements against James Cason.
URL: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2003/18462.htm (English)
Human Rights:
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, 2005: Cuba, Department of State
Date: 2006/03/08
Description: An evaluation of the human rights situation in the island, as it is done annually.
URL: http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61723.htm (English)
Human rights:
Supporting Human Rights and Democracy. The US Record 2004-2005, US State Department, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
Date: 2004/05/17
Description: Report covers the state of human rights in the Latin American region, including Cuba.
URL: http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/shrd/2004/43113.htm (English)
Human rights:
Press statement: New U.S. Policy To Deny Visas to Participants in March 2003 Show Trials, US State Department
Date: 2004/03/18
Description: A press statement by the US State Department’s deputy spokesman, Adam Erely, announcing the denial of visas to participants in the March 2003 trials against dissidents.
URL: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2004/30570.htm (English)
Human rights:
Cuba 2004. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices , US State Department, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
Date: 2004/02/24
Description: An evaluation of the human rights situation in the island, as it is done annually.
URL: http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41756.htm (English)
Human rights:
Fact sheet: The State of Political Prisoners, US State Department
Date: 2003/08/01
Description: The US denounces the prison conditions of Cuban political prisoners.
URL: http://www.state.gov/p/wha/rls/fs/22972.htm (English)
Human rights:
Press statement: Kangaroo Courts, US State Department
Date: 2003/04/03
Description: The United States condemns the Cuban government’s initiation of trials against dissidents.
URL: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2003/19318.htm (English)
Human rights:
Press statement: US Outraged by Cuban crackdown on dissidents, US State Department
Date: 2003/03/19
Description: The US government reacts to the arrests of over 80 dissidents in Cuba.
URL: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2003/18834.htm (English)
Migration:
Daily press briefing: Migration Talks, US Department of State
Date: 2004/01/07
Description: An explanation of the cancellation of migration talks.
URL: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2004/27959.htm (English)
Sales:
OFAC Issues Clarification on Payments for Agricultural and Medical Shipments to Cuba, US Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
Date: 2005/02/22
Description: OFAC clarifies that with regard to Commerce-licensed shipments to Cuba the terminology payment of cash in advance means payment of cash prior to shipment of goods.
URL: http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/actions/200502 ... (English)
Terrorism:
State Sponsors of Terror Overview
Date: 2006/04/28
Description: The US government reiterates that Cuba sponsors terrorism in its territory.
URL: http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/65476.pdf (English)
US International Trade Commission:
US Agricultural Sales to Cuba: Certain Economic Effects of US Restrictions
Date: 2007/07
Description: In response to a request from the US Senate Committee on Finance, the investigation number 332—489 by the ITC, provides an overview of Cuba’s purchases of US agricultural, fish, and forestry products since 2000; an analysis of the effects that US government restrictions on export financing terms and travel to Cuba by US citizens have on those Cuban purchases; and estimates of likely US agricultural sales if export financing restrictions and travel restrictions are lifted.
URL: http://www.crnm.org/documents/US_Agricultural_Sales_to_Cuba_ ... (English)
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