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Organizations : United States : Non-government : Policy and political
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Acción Democrática Cubana
Location: Miami, US
Description: An organization formed in 1996 with the purpose of supporting and strengthening the Cuban internal opposition. Its website provides updated information about the activities of the opposition organizations.
URL: http://www.adcuba.org/ (English)
Agenda Cuba
Location: Miami, US
Description: Promotes campaigns for the release of all political prisoners; denounces violations of human rights; and disseminates the actions of dissident organizations in Cuba. Agenda Cuba collects medicines that are sent to the island. The web site includes news, and links to other organizations.
URL: http://agendacuba.org/index.html (Spanish)
Bitácora Cubana
Location: Puerto Rico
Description: Bitácora’s purpose is to create a space for a better understanding of the Cuban reality. It aims toward a true democratic and participatory government in Cuba.
URL: http://www.bitacoracubana.com/ (Spanish)
Bloggers United for Cuba
Location: Miami, US
Description: Bloggers United for Cuban Liberty is a confederation of blogs and web sites that share the goal of helping the cause of Cuba's liberty. Its objective is to create and implement campaigns, that are easy to participate in that will generate awareness about the Cuban reality.
URL: http://bloggersforcubanliberty.blogspot.com/ (English)
Center for International Policy
Location: Washington, DC
Description: CIP promotes a US foreign policy based on cooperation, demilitarization, and respect for human rights. Under the direction of Wayne Smith, former Chief of the US Interest Section in Havana, the Cuba Program seeks to change US policy towards Cuba, including ending the US embargo.
URL: http://ciponline.org/cuba/index.htm (English)
Center for National Policy
Location: Washington, DC
Description: The CNP supports a negotiated normalization process between the US and Cuba and the lifting of US sanctions against the island.
URL: http://www.cnponline.org/ (English)
Consenso Cubano
Location: Miami, US
Description: A plural gathering space for reflection, conciliation and concord among Cuban organizations. It gathers organizations from the island and the exile community, toward reconciliation and to a non-violent transition in Cuba.
URL: http://www.consensocubano.org/eng/whatiscc.htm (English)
Coordinadora Social Demócrata de Cuba
Description: The CSDC supports the Mesa de Reflexión Externa, a coalition of various exile organizations with links to dissident organizations in the island. The CSDC has organized a number of projects that support a transition towards democracy in Cuba. The website includes news, documents and the journal, La Opinión.
URL: http://www.cosodecu.org/ (Spanish)
Council on Foreign Relations, Inc.
Location: New York and Washington D. C., US
Description: The CFR hosts a Cuba and US-Cuba Relations Roundtable in Washington, DC. The CFR has also
assembled an independent, bipartisan task force which produced the 2001 report, “U.S.-Cuba Relations in the 21st Century: A Follow-On Chairman’s Report.” This report offers
recommendations in four areas: family reunification and migration; the free flow of ideas; regional security proposals; and trade, investment, property, and labor rights. The web site also provides Cuba-related analysis and publications.
URL: http://www.cfr.org/region/213/cuba.html (English)
Cuba Central
Location: Washington D. C.
Description: Cubacentral.com is dedicated to changing US policy toward Cuba by ending the travel ban to the island and lifting the embargo.
URL: http://www.cubacentral.com (English)
Cuba Independiente y Democrática
Location: Miami, US
Description: CID promotes Cuba’s total independence and sovereignty, the establishment of a multiparty system, a market economy, social justice and integration with the Western hemisphere. The website includes descriptions of various projects, including a project for a transition towards free enterprise, as well its monthly magazine, NotiCuba.
URL: http://www.cubacid.com/index.htm (Spanish)
Cuba Study Group
Location: Miami, US
Description: A non-profit, non-partisan organization, comprised of Cuban business and community leaders. The Group's goal is to formulate recommendations that promote and facilitate a peaceful regime change in Cuba. The site provides a research section with data on dissidents, human rights, rule of law, labor rights, democracy and transition, economy and development, and US policy toward Cuba.
URL: http://www.cubastudygroup.org (English)
Cuban American Alliance
Location: Washington DC, US
Description: An organization that educates about the hardships caused by current US-Cuba relations. Among its projects it promotes campaigns, educational trips to the island, the “Sister Cities” project.
URL: http://www.cubamer.org/ (English)
Cuban American Undergraduate Students Association
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
Description: Founded in 1994, after a speech delivered by Cuban born US actor Andy Garcia at Harvard, CAUSA is a student organization at Harvard University for Cubans, Cuban Americans, and anyone interested in Cuban culture. The website has an online journal, Nuestra Causa, with opinion articles on current Cuba related events.
URL: http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~causa/ (English)
Cuban Liberty Council
Location: Miami, US
Description: Founded by individuals formerly belonging to the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF), this organization is committed to promoting liberty and democracy in Cuba. Web site includes news about the island and the exile community, documents on US-Cuba relations, and the bulletin Libertad.
URL: http://www.cubanlibertycouncil.org/ (English)
Cuban Movement for a Unified Democracy
Location: United States
Description: The MCUD works for the restitution of the democratic system in Cuba. Among its objectives are the reestablishment and enforcement of law, the immediate freedom of political prisoners, total freedom of expression, religion, association, and movement. The website provides news, documents, events, and links to Cuba related organizations.
URL: http://www.cubamcud.org/English/index-eng.htm (English)
Fund for Reconciliation and Development (FRD)
Location: New York, US
Description: The FRD works for reconciliation with and development of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Cuba and fully normal US diplomatic, cultural, educational and economic relations.
Its US-Cuba Reconciliation Initiative began in 1998 and is undertaken in the spirit of creating people-to-people projects to overcome decades of mutual hostility and misunderstanding.
URL: http://www.ffrd.org/index.html (English)
Joint Corporate Committee on Cuban Claims
Location: US
Description: Certified Cuban Claims is the Website of the Joint Corporate Committee on Cuban Claims, an organization whose membership is comprised of corporations and individuals with property claims against the government of Cuba. It provides the history of the Cuban property seizures, present the facts, and familiarizes the visitor with US government policy and international law concerning the seizure by governments of private property.
URL: http://www.certifiedcubanclaims.org/cubanclaims/index.htm (English)
Junta Patriótica Cubana
Location: Washington DC, US
Description: Promotes liberty and democracy in Cuba. Includes news, articles, documents and other information on the Cuban exile community and about the island.
URL: http://www.juntapatriotica.org/ (English)
Latin America Working Group
Location: Washington DC, US
Description: A coalition of over sixty religious, human rights, policy, grassroots and development organizations that work towards encouraging US policies towards Latin America that promote human rights, justice, peace and sustainable development. LAWG works to end the US embargo on Cuba. Within the website’s section on Cuba, the visitor will find a variety of programs including, Congress Watch, which tracks and lobbies on legislation related to Cuba, and Take Action, which facilitates advocacy.
URL: http://www.lawg.org/ (English)
Lexington Institute
Location: Arlington, Virginia
Description: The Lexington Institute’s Program on Cuba aims to provide readable, original field research on Cuba's economy, and analysis and commentary on developments in Cuba, US-Cuba relations and US policy toward Cuba. The web site includes research papers and articles, as well as the e-newsletter, the Cuba Policy Report.
URL: http://www.lexingtoninstitute.org/ (English)
Miami Dade Cuban American Democratic Club
Location: Miami, US
Description: The Miami Dade Cuban American Club serves as a forum to discuss and promote Democratic party policies and issues of specific concern to the Cuban American community including US-Cuba relations. It demands from the US government the lifting of restrictions to travel and of remittances to relatives in Cuba. It also demands from the Cuban government reforms in current migration regulations.
URL: http://www.miamicubandems.org/ (English)
Movimiento Democrático 30 de Noviembre, Frank País
Location: Miami, US
Description: Promotes democracy, a multi-party system, social justice and free market system in Cuba. Supports Cuba’s internal opposition through the provision of humanitarian aid.
URL: http://www.30november.org/ (English)
Movimiento Humanista Evolucionario Cubano
Location: Florida, United States
Description: Promotes humanism in the Cuban society. The site provides articles and commentaries on current Cuban political issues.
URL: http://mhec.humanists.net/index.html (Spanish)
National Democratic Institute
Location: Washington, DC
Description: The NDI is a nonprofit organization working to strengthen and expand democracy worldwide. It has a project on Cuba.
URL: http://www.ndi.org/worldwide/lac/cuba/cuba.asp (English)
Partido Demócrata Cristiano de Cuba
Location: Miami, US
Description: Linked to the PDCC in the island, this organization seeks liberty and the establishment of democracy in Cuba. The web site includes information about the PDCC’s history, its political platform, activities such as humanitarian aid to Cuba’s internal opposition, news, articles, and documents, including from various dissident organizations and the Catholic Church.
URL: http://www.pdc-cuba.org/ (Spanish)
Raices de Esperanza
Location: United States
Description: Raices de Esperanza aims to unite the Cuban community in exile and within the Island across generational, ideological and economic divides, in the pursuit of a pluralistic and democratic Cuban society. It is comprised of student associations of several US universities.
URL: http://www.raicesdeesperanza.org/index.php (English)
Support Group to Democracy (GAD)
Location: Coral Gables, Florida, US
Description: GAD’s main objectives have been to provide material support to the growing number of dissident groups, and independent NGOs in Cuba, for the purpose of assisting with the organization and development of the different levels of the emergent civil society, in order to achieve a peaceful and transition to democracy.
URL: http://www.gadcuba.org/index%20English.htm (English)
The Council on Foreign Relations
Location: New York and Washington DC, US
Description: Organization dedicated to improving the understanding of US foreign policy and international affairs. One area of focus is the study of Cuba and US-Cuba relations.
URL: http://www.cfr.org/index.php (English)
The Cuba Corps
Location: Miami, United States
Description: A project of Cuban exiles who wish to help in the reconstruction of a civil society in a post-Castro Cuba.
URL: http://www.thecubacorps.org/ (English)
The Cuban American National Foundation (CANF)
Location: Miami, US
Description: Established in 1981, the CANF is the largest Cuban exile organization. It is dedicated to advancing freedom and democracy in Cuba. It supports a non-violent transition to a pluralistic, market-based democracy in Cuba that fosters economic prosperity and social justice, and is grounded in the rule of law and the protection of human rights. The web site includes a brief history and description of the organization, editorials and analysis on Cuba, an opinion forum and a library. Activities include support to non-violent pro-democracy activists on the island, public education about Cuba, human rights violations, and the Cuban exile community, lobbying the US government on Cuba policy, promoting Cuban culture, and a scholarship program.
URL: http://www.canf.org/ (English)
The Cuban Committee for Democracy (CCD)
Location: Miami and Washington DC, US
Description: The CCD was founded in 1993 by self-described moderate voices within the Cuban American community. It works towards the establishment of a peaceful, negotiated transition to democracy in Cuba and to support political tolerance for all opinions within the Cuban community. Activities include public education, promotion of discussion among the Cuban American community, and lobbying the US government on Cuba policy. The web site includes the institution’s mission and organizational structure, legislative initiatives in the US Congress on Cuba, links to its radio broadcasts (through Radio Transicion), as well as to its monthly newspaper, Transicion News, and to its trimestral newsletter, Cuban Affairs/Asuntos Cubanos.
URL: http://www.ccdusa.org/ (English)
The Inter-American Dialogue
Location: Washington DC, US
Description: A centre dedicated to policy analysis and dialogue on Western Hemispheric affairs. The Cuba Program, which seeks to facilitate Cuba's political and economic engagement with the international community, with the objective of enabling Cuba's participation in international institutions, is listed in the IAD’s web site within its Country Programs section. It includes recent publications.
URL: http://www.thedialogue.org/ (English)
Unidad Cubana
Location: Miami, US
Description: Unidad Cubana was founded on July 12, 1991. This coalition of over one hundred Cuban exile organizations is comprised of the “historical” Cuban exile community. Unidad Cubana opposes dialogue with Cuban authorities and supports the resistance of the internal opposition in the island. The web site provides with documents and proposals for change in Cuba.
URL: http://launidadcubana.com/ (Spanish)
Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)
Location: Washingotn DC, US
Description: WOLA is committed to advancing human rights, democratic institutions, citizen participation and equitable economic development. WOLA's Cuba Program supports the normalization of relations between Cuba and the US and the promotion of human rights and social justice in Cuba through engagement with the island. Information on Cuba available through its web site includes press releases and reports.
URL: http://www.wola.org/ (English)
Witness for Peace
Location: Washington D C, US
Description: WFP is a politically independent, nationwide grassroots organization of people committed to nonviolence and led by faith and conscience. Its Cuba Program fights for an end to US travel restrictions to the island.
URL: http://www.witnessforpeace.org/sites/cuba.html (English)
Working Group on Memory, Truth and Justice, Florida International University
Location: Miami, US
Description: Comprised of 26 academics, political and human rights activists and policy specialists from various countries, this group explores the challenges facing national reconciliation in Cuba. The website provides an explanation of the project, the full report, in Spanish and English, bios of members of the group, and reactions to the report, including from inside Cuba.
URL: http://memoria.fiu.edu/ (English)
World Policy Institute (WPI)
Location: New York, US
Description: The WPI at New School University is a research and education policy center that seeks innovative solutions to critical problems facing the United States and the world. The Cuba project focuses on examining the impact of US sanctions on state and society in Cuba and the United States.
URL: http://worldpolicy.org/projects/uscuba/index.html (English)
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