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Deseado: Un sistema socialista para las necesidades actuales
Agosto 26 de 2009
Patricia Grogg
IPS News
Wanted: Socialist System that Meets Real Needs
August 26, 2009
Patricia Grogg
IPS News
Plummeting economy (Spanish)
August 20, 2009
Oscar Espinosa Chepe
Cubaencuentro.com
Neither agriculture, services, tourism nor investment: the decrease in Cuba's GDP has no expiry date.
Mesa-Lago: History will not absolve Castro (Spanish)
August 19, 2009
Cesar Calero
La Nación
Cuban exiles want to unite Cuba with Spain
August 12, 2009
El Confidencial Digital
Cuba Española
August 2009
A new blog by Cuban exiles in Miami that supports the idea of integrating Cuba to Spain as an autonomous region.
Reconciliation: The country we should leave to our children (Spanish)
August 2009
Roberto Veiga
Espacio Laical
Venezuela’s Economic Aid to Cuba: Is It Sustanable? (Spanish)
Rolando H. Castañeda
July 31, 2009
The Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy Annual Conference
Message to the Nation (Spanish)
July 27, 2009
In response to Raul Castro's July 26 speech, 72 dissident organizations describe Cuba as "a failed country", and request from the Government to "listen to its society".
Chinese lessons for the Cuban summer (Spanish)
Juan Antonio Blanco
July 17, 2009
Cambio de Epoca
La paradoja económica cubana (Spanish)
Carmelo Mesa-Lago, El Pais
July 12, 2009
Mesa-Lago explores a key paradox of the Cuban economy: centralized economic management unable to take advantage of its power to design and implement a coherent strategy to escape its current difficulties.
Raulonomics: Tough Diagnosis and Partial Prescriptions in Raul Castro’s Economic Policies (PDF)
Philip Peters, Lexington Institute
July 2009
Peters examines “the distinguishing feature of Cuban economic policy today….the large gap between the government’s own dire diagnosis and its relatively limited policy prescriptions.”
Unidos en la Esperanza (Spanish)
June 18, 2009
A proposal by the Christian Liberation Movement for changes in Cuba
Evaluation of the EU Common Position on Cuba
June 15, 2009
Official Statement of the Cuban Foreign Affairs Ministry on the OAS resolution
June 8, 2009
OAS resolution on Cuba
June 3, 2009
Resolution VI of the Eighth Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of 1962 ceases to have effect.
Cuban American National Foundation on the OAS Resolution
June 3, 2009
Press Release
Tom Gjelten: Cuban Days: The Inscrutable Nation
Summer 2009
World Affairs
Amnesty International Report: 2009
May 28, 2009
In Cuba, restrictions on freedom of expression, association and assembly persisted, says the report.
U.S.-proposed Resolution on Cuba and the Inter-American System
May 26, 2009
Letter from W. Lewis Amselem, Deputy U.S. Permanent Representative at the OAS to Graeme Clarke, Chair of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States and Permanent Representative of Canada.
Cuba prepares to receive less aid (Spanish)
May 27, 2009
Michel Suárez interviews Horacio Medina, a former manager of Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA).
Interview: Peter Kent
May 16, 2009
Constructive engagement has not worked, says the Canadian Minister of State for Latin America.
Social Justice in Cuba: Now and in the Future
May 2009
Report and recommendations from a gathering of 20 Cuba analysts in Bellagio, Italy, examining the current and future state of social justice in Cuba, co-sponsored by the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University, the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales-Mexico (FLACSO) and the Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL).
¿Puede Obama Levantar el Embargo a Cuba?
21 de mayo de 2009
A paper by the Spanish Fundación para el Analísis y los Estudios Sociales by Jesús Gracia Aldaz, the former Spanish ambassador to Cuba (2001-2004).
Options for Engagement
April 20, 2009
The Lexington Institute presents a resource guide for reforming US policy toward Cuba.
Reaching Out to the Cuban People
April 13, 2009
The Obama Administration announces a series of changes in US policy towards Cuba.
A New Course for US-Cuba Policy
April 9, 2009
The Cuban American National Foundation sends a document to the US President, which the organization calls as "a break from the past".
Cuba: A New Policy of Critical and Constructive Engagement
April 7, 2009
A report of the Brookings Institution’s project, "U.S. Policy toward a Cuba in Transition."
Inmovilismo, confrontación
April 8, 2009
EE UU y América Latina hablan de cambios en la política hacia Cuba. ¿Y qué hace La Habana?
Canada Stuck in the Middle of Cuba Summit Snub
April 6, 2009
Urgent Action: Jorge Luis Garcia Perez
March 31, 2009
Amnesty International urge Cuban authorities to stop the harassment and intimidation of five activists who began a hunger strike on March 17.
Letter to Barack Obama
March 30, 2009
Republican US Senator Richard Lugar sent a letter to President Barack Obama encouraging him to lift US opposition to Cuba's joining the OAS at the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad.
Cuba: Government must show commitment to human rights
March 17, 2009
Amnesty International issues a statement on the 6th anniversary of the crackdown on dissidents.
A Second Chance: US Policy in the Americas
March 2009
The Inter-American Dialogue issues a set of proposals to the Obama Administration on Latin America, including Cuba.
Official Note
March 2, 2009
The Cuban Council of State restructures the Cabinet.
Open Letter to General of the Army Raúl Castro Ruz,
President of the Republic of Cuba from Fr. José Conrado
February 5, 2009
Kiss the Embargo Goodbye
February 2009
A proposal by Colonel Glenn A. Crowther (R), from the US Strategic Studies Institute.
Nine Ways for US to Talk to Cuba and for Cuba to Talk to US
February 2, 2009
Sponsored by the Center for Democracy in the Americas, a group of independent authors write on US-Cuba cooperation
Proposal for a participatory society (Spanish)
January 21, 2009
Proposal made by a group of Cuban exiles living in different countries.
2008
Cuba: Free Dissidents Now
December 11, 2008
Human Rights Watch
Lifting Restrictions on Travel and Remittances to Cuba: A Case of Unilateral Action
December 10, 2008
Cuba Study Group
2008 Cuba/US Transition Poll
December 2, 2008
Conducted by Florida International University, Brookings Institution and the Cuba Study Group, the poll shows 55 per cent of Cuban Americans in favour of lifting the embargo.
Report by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (Spanish)
November 28, 2008
The High Commissioner issues a summary of the opinions received on Cuba for the universal periodic review by the Human Rights Council.
Re-Thinking US-Latin American Relations
November 24, 2008
Brookings Institution: Report of the Partnership for the Americas Commission.
CPJ Press Freedom Awards 2008
November 21, 2008
The Committee to Protect Journalists honours Cuban imprisoned reporter Hector Maseda.
Resolution on Cuba (Spanish)
November 8, 2008
Resolution adopted by a Summit of the Centre Democrat International (IDC) in Mexico.
UN General Assembly: End US embargo against Cuba
October 29, 2008
Vote on Resolution: 185 in Favour, 3 Against, with 2 Abstentions.
Algunas visiones generales sobre la realidad cubana (Spanish)
August 2008
The dissident Christian Democratic Party analyzes current situation in Cuba.
Report by the CCHRNR (Spanish)
August 12, 2008
The Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation delivers its annual report.
Who denies Cubans their right to travel?
August 9, 2008
Opposition leader Oswaldo Paya talks about the right of Cubans to travel freely to and from Cuba.
Interview of Yoani Sanchez by Ted Henken
August 7, 2008
From verbal violence to citizen cyber-journalism.
En torno a la democracia en Cuba (Spanish)
August 2008
Article in Espacio Laical, no. 3, August 2008
The Harassed Team
July 31, 2008
Fidel Castro refers to Cuban defectors during the 23rd World Youth Baseball Championship held in Edmonton.
Plataforma Básica Socialdemócrata (Spanish)
July 19, 2008
It was adopted at the Arco Progresista First National Convention, held in Havana.
Seguimos esperando en el amor (Spanish)
July 2008. No. 38
Editorial in Espacio Laical on the need of democratizing the only legally accepted Party in Cuba
European Union Resolution on Cuba
June 23, 2008
The EU Council agrees “to the lifting of the already suspended
2003 measures” and opens “a comprehensive dialogue with the Cuban Government.”
Survey of Cuban Public Opinion
June 5, 2008
It was conducted by the International Republican Institute, in Cuba, from March 14 to April 12, 2008.
State of the World’s Human Rights: Cuba (Spanish)
May 27, 2008
Amnesty International issues its 2008 report.
The Empire’s Hypocritical Politics
May 26, 2008
Fidel Castro responds to Barack Obama’s speech at the luncheon organized by the Cuban American National Foundation.
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Barack Obama’s speech on Cuba and US-Latin America relations
May 23, 2008
The candidate to the Democratic nomination delivers the speech, “Renewing US Leadership in the Americas”, at a luncheon organized by the Cuban American National Foundation.
Letter to Senator Obama from the Ladies in White
May 22, 2008
Delivered during the luncheon organized by the Cuban American National Foundation, in Miami.
US-Latin America Relations: A New Direction for a New Reality
May 14, 2008
The Council of Foreign Relations says the US should initiate a series of steps towards the lifting of the embargo.
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