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2005
- November 2005 Action Alert: Click Here
- October 2005 Action Alert: Votes Coming Up
- May 2005 Alert: Click here
- February 2005 Alert Click here
2004
- Action Alert on Cuba Amendments (9/15/04)
- Action Alert on Cuba Amendments (9/9/04)
- November 2004 Alert Click here
- September 2004 Alert: Vote Results
- September 2004 Action Alert: Votes Coming Up
- June 2004 Action Alert: Oppose the New Travel Restrictions
- May Action Alert
- March Action Alert: Encourage Improved Relations
2003
- Support the Bills to Lift the Ban on Travel to Cuba (Aug-Sept. 2003)
- Congratulate or Admonish Your Representative for Their Vote on Cuba Travel (Sept. 10, 2003)
- Support the Senate and House Cuba Travel Amendments: Help them to Reach President Bush's Desk. Click here for update and suggested actions (October, 2003)
- Action Alert: Support the "Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act" (May 2003)
- A printable flyer on what you can do to voice your opinion on the ban on travel to Cuba: Click Here (pdf)
- Action Alert: Oppose New Restrictions on Travel to Cuba
- July 21, 2003 Cuba Policy: Victory Update
- July 16, 2003 Urgent Cuba Action Needed Today
- June 19, 2003 Cuba Policy Urgent Action Alert (June)
- May 21, 2003 New House Travel Bill—Please Make Calls
- May 5, 2003 Senate Cuba Travel Bill—Please Act
- March 27, 2003 Cuba Policy Update/Action
- February 26, 2003 Cuba Policy Update
- Tell Congress and the President that stripping the travel amendments was unacceptable Full Story: Click here
Congress Watch
- Moving Speech on Cuba Travel Restrictions by Rep. Jose Serrano click here
- House Passes Major Reforms to Cuba Policy (updated July 24, 2002)
- Senate Forms Cuba Working Group, March 21, 2003
- Press Release from the LAWG: 100 Members of Congress Call for Sweeping Change in US Policy Toward Cuba (Posted June 12, 2001)
- Press Release from the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba
- Human Rights Watch testimony on Cuban dissidents at House Committee on International Relations hearing, April 16, 2003
- Amnesty International Human Rights Caucus briefing testimony on Cuba May 7, 2003
News Articles
- Cuba policy: `Something has to change,' by Oscar Corral and Frances Robles, The Miami Herald
- Rice Chairs Meeting of Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba, International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State
- Cuban policy commission revived to take a fresh look, by Frances Robles and Pablo Bachelet, The Miami Herald
- Looking to a Post-Castro Cuba, by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, National Public Radio
- U.S. and Cuban Policies Forcibly Separate Families a new Human Rights Watch report.
- Delay Swings Momentum Against Easing Cuba Travel Limits, by Bob Cusack, The Hill
- La Voz de Miami, Radio Marti's Skewed Coverage, by Phil Peters
- Hundreds Rally in Washington for Fewer Travel Restrictions, by Nancy San Martin, The Miami Herald
- Outcry Against U.S. Restrictions on Religious Visits to Cuba, Church World Service
- Summary of Congressional Quarterly Today Article, by Jayden Sparenborg, The Latin America Working Group
- Congressmen ask Treasury Officials to Explain New Cuba Travel Rules by Robert Marus, Associated Baptist Press
- Slander: The Assassination of Alberto Coll, by A.L. Bardach, Slate.com
- U.S. Offers Assistance to Cuba in the Wake of Hurricane Wilma, Press Release by Sean McCormack, U.S. Department of State
- Welcome Mr. Bush, by Frei Betto, Progreso Weekly
- U.S. Permits 3 Cancer Drugs From Cuba Article, by Andrew Pollack, The New York Times
- Our Man's in Miami. Patriot or Terrorist? by Ann Louise Bardach, The Washington Post
- Bush's Cuba Moves Stir Backlash, by Leslie Clark, The Miami Herald
- United States Cuba Policy-Time For A Reality Check Op-Ed by Tony Martinez, Esq.
- Edwards, in Florida, Voices Support for Easing Limits on Travel to Cuba, by James Rainey, The Los Angeles Times
- Get-Tough Policy on Cuba May Backfire Against Bush, by Christopher Marquis, The New York Times
- Cuban Americans Caught in the Middle by Portia Siegelbaum, CBS News
- Panel Seeks Steps for Cuba Regime Change by George Gedda, The Associated Press
- OFAC emphasizes Cuba rather than Bin Laden by John Solomon, The Associated Press
- A POW in Cuba after Bay of Pigs, professor returns to meet Castro by Kyle Wingfield, The Associated Press
- The Last Wall, by Mikhail Gorbachev, An opinion piece in The Washington Post
- Editorials on Cuba Policy (sorted by state), 2001 – January 2003
- Stances on Cuba Collide, the Miami Herald reports on the National Summit on Cuba and a counter-event organized by anti-engagement activists.
- Debating Cuba Policy, by Max Castro, The Miami Herald
LAWG Analysis
- LAWG statement on Cuban dissidents’ crisis, April 11, 2003
- LAWG memo on tensions between the US and Cuba, April 7, 2003
Other Documents and Analysis
General Policy Analysis
- Bolton Hearings Highlight Internal U.S. Differences on Cuba's Biological Weapons
- US-Cuba Policy: It is Time to Use IMAGINATION, a statement by Patricia Gutiérrez-Menoyo
- Cultural Blindness or The New Definition of Family, by Lillian Manzor
- Secretary Snow Makes Hardline Speech in Miami. To read the speech click here
Cuban Americans respond to the speech click here- President Bush Courts Old Miami, an article about the President Bush's speech on Cuba policy October 10, 2003
- Miami Counterpoint: an article by the Lexington Institute on the recent National Summit on Cuba in Miami.Consensus, Openness Lead Toward a Free Cuba, by Patricia Gutierrez Menoyo, co-director of Cuban Committee for Democracy.
- Human Rights Watch statement on Cuba at Freedom to Travel conference, July 15, 2003
Freedom to Travel
- US Conference of Catholic Bishops' Letter to Congress on Cuba policy (pdf)
- US Embargo Walls Us In by Cliff DuRand and Mike McGuire for Academe Magazine
- Secretary Snow Makes Hardline Speech in Miami. To read the speech click here
- Cuban Americans respond to the speech click here
