List of Posts to dwkcommentaries—Topical: CUBA [as of 5/4/20]

 

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      Table of Contents  
     Cuba & Other Countries

Cuba & Minnesota

Cuban Bloggers

Cuba: State Sponsor of Terrorism?

U.S. Embargo of Cuba

U.S. & Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

U.S. & Cuba Damage Claims

Cuban Human Rights

U.S. Democracy Promotion in Cuba

Cuban Medical Personnel & U.S.

Cuban Migration to U.S.

Cuban Economy

U.S.-Cuba Relations, 1789—2010

U.S.-Cuba Relations, 2011-2014

U.S. (Obama) & Cuba Relations (Normalization), 2014

U.S. (Obama) & Cuba Relations (Normalization), 2015

Pope Francis Visits to Cuba & U.S., 2015

U.S. (Obama) & Cuba Relations (Normalization), 2016

 
     U.S. (Obama) & Cuba Relations (Normalization), 2017        U.S. (Trump) & Cuba Relations, 2016-2017

Hurricane Irma & Cuba, 2017

U.S. Diplomats Medical Problems in Cuba, 2017-18

Cuba’s New Constitution, 2018-2019

U.S. (Trump) and Cuba Relations, 2019

 
     U.S. Diplomats Medical Problems in Cuba, 2019

U.S. Parole Program for Cuban Medical Professionals,  2019

Cuba, Venezuela & U.S., 2019

U.S. Cuba Restricted List, 2019

Helms-Burton Act title III Authorization, 2019

Other, 2019

Cuba Detention & Prosecution of Ferrer, 2019-20

Other, 2020

 
    Cuba & Other Countries  
  05/18/18 Nelson Mandela Was Inspired by Fidel Castro’s Cuban Revolution  
  03/10/15 EU and Cuba’s Negotiations on Human Rights and Other Issues  
  05/03/16 United Kingdom Promotes Engagement with Cuba  
  05/19/16 Comment: Cuba and Spain Strengthen Commercial Ties  
  05/20/16 Comment: Cuba Strengthens Commercial Ties with Italy and Switzerland  
  09/26/16 European Union Moves to Normalization with Cuba  
  12/12/16 European Union and Cuba Agree To Cooperate on Political Dialogue, Cooperation, Trade and Economic Relations  
  12/13/16 More Details on Signing of EU-Cuba Agreement  
  12/16/16 EU-Cuba Agreement Criticized As Weak on Human Rights  
  03/16/15 U.S. and Cuba Squabble Over U.S. Sanctions Against Certain Venezuelans  
  03/18/15 Venezuela’s Open Letter to People of the U.S.  
  03/19/15 ALBA Emergency Meeting’s Action Regarding President Obama’s Executive Order Imposing Sanctions on Seven Venezuelans  
  03/20/15 Criticism of Venezuela’s Response to President Obama’s Executive Order  
  10/01/16 U.N. Human Rights Council Members Call on Venezuela To Engage with Political  Opposition  
  12/14/16 Cuba’s Economic Ties with Venezuela Are Fraying  
  05/07/17 Cuba and Morocco Re-Establish Diplomatic Relations  
  05/27/17 Cuba Reaffirms Support of Polisario  
1113 01/03/18 Professor LeoGrande’a comments on the Stengthening Cuba-Russia Relationship  
1121 01/12/18 Cuba and European Union Strengthen Their Relationship  
1121A 01/31/18 EU To Assist Cuba with Dual Currency Consolidation  
  05/10/18 The Opening of the Session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean  
  05/12/18 The Closing of the Session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean  
1185 05/14/18 European Union to Fund 40 Million Euro Projects in Cuba  
1185A 05/14/18 Perspective on Swedish Politician’s Quote in Post  
1188 05/18/18 Nelson Mandela Was Inspired by Fidel Cstro’s Cuban Revolution  
1190 05/21/18 Discussion About Cuba at the Washington Conference on the Americas  
    Cuba & Minnesota  
  08/29/14 Cuban Events in Minnesota  
  01/13/15 Minneapolis’ Westminster Presbyterian Church’s Connections with Cuba  
  01/04/15 Minneapolis’ Westminster Presbyterian Church Celebrates U.S.-Cuba Reconciliation  
  01/08/15 Nachito Herrera’s Concert at Minneapolis’ Westminster Presbyterian Church  
  03/13/15 Charanga Tropical Concerts in Twin Cities, March 13-15  
  02/13/15 Minnesota Orchestra To Go to Cuba  
  05/11/15 Minnesota Orchestra Goes to Cuba This Week  
  12/17/15 Minnesota Orchestra’s Cuba Trip Garners National Recognition  
  12/20/15 Comment: Profile of Minnesota Orchestra’s President  
  01/06/16 Comment: NPR Commends Minnesota Orchestra for Cuba Trip  
  02/27/16 Comment: Minnesota Orchestra Obtains Additional National Attention  
    Cuban Bloggers  
  07/21/11 Blogging in Havana  
  12/05/11 Comment: Yoani Sanchez Named One of Top 100 “Global Thinkers”  
  01/06/12 Yoani Sanchez Pleas to Brazilian President To Help Her Get Out of Cuba  
  01/26/12 Comment: Brazil Grants Visa to Cuban Blogger  
  01/31/12 Comment: Brazil’s President Has No Comment on Whether Cuban Should Grant an Exit Visa to Cuban Blogger  
  04/22/12 Comment: Yoani’s Unending Dream of Leaving Cuba  
  10/06/12 Comment: Yoani Detained To Prevent Her Covering Trial  
  02/06/13 Cuban Blogger Obtains Cuban Passport and Plans Trip to Latin America, North America and Europe  
  06/01/13 Cuban blogger, Yoani Sanchez, Returns Home  
    Cuba: State Sponsor of Terrorism?  
  05/20/11 The Ridiculous U.S. Designation of Cuba as a “State Sponsor of Terrorism”  
  08/21/11 U.S. Repeats Its Ridiculous Designation of Cuba as a “State Sponsor of Terrorism”  
  12/02/11 Comment: Call for Cancelling U.S. Designation of Cuba as “State Sponsor of Terrorism”  
  01/20/12 Comment: Another Voice Says U.S. Designation of Cuba a “State Sponsor of Terrorism” Is Fraudulent  
  03/28/12 Comment: Retired U.S. General Asserts Cuba Is Not a State Sponsor of Terrorism  
  08/05/12 The Latest U.S. Report on International Terrorism  
  08/07/12 Yet Another Ridiculous U.S. Designation of Cuba as a “State Sponsor of Terrorism”  
  08/09/12 Additional Thoughts on the Ridiculous U.S. Designation of Cuba as a “State Sponsor of Terrorism”  
  06/04/13 U.S. Report on Terrorism for 2012  
  06/07/13 U.S.’ Absurd Designation of Cuba As a “State Sponsor of Terrorism”  
  06/15/13 Cuba Adopts Regulations Against Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing  
  05/02/14 U.S. Report on Terrorism for 2013  
  05/06/14 U.S. Stupidity and Cowardice in Continuing To Designate Cuba as a “State Sponsor of Terrorism”  
  08/08/14 U.S. Hijacker of Airliner to Cuba Is Sentenced to 20 Years in U.S. Prison  
  11/06/14 Baseless Ground for U.S. Designation of Cuba as a “State Sponsor of Terrorism”  
  12/15/14 New York Times Reiterates Call for Ending U.S. Designation of Cuba as a “State Sponsor of Terrorism”  
  01/02/15 Legal and Political Issues Regarding U.S. Rescission of Designation of Cuba as a “Sponsor of International Terrorism”  
  01/03/15 U.S. Has Conceded Many Reasons Why Cuba Has Provided Assurances That It Will Not Support Future Acts of International Terrorism  
  04/15/15 President Obama Rescinds U.S. Designation of Cuba as a “State Sponsor of Terrorism”  
  04/15/15 Comment: State Department Discusses Rationale for Rescission  
  04/24/15 Congressional Opposition to U.S.-Cuba Reconciliation Accepts Terrorism Rescission  
  05/29/15 U.S. Rescinds Designation of Cuba as a “State Sponsor of Terrorism”  
  05/31/15 Comment: Responses to Rescission of Terrorism Designation  
  06/20/15 Cuba Still “State Sponsor of Terrorism” in State Department’s Report for 2014  
    U.S. Embargo of Cuba  
  10/25/11 U.N. General Assembly Again Condemns U.S. Embargo of Cuba  
  10/30/14 U.N. General Assembly Again Condemns U.S. Embargo of Cuba  
  01/15/15 U.S. Easing Restrictions on American Travel and Exports to Cuba  
  01/16/15 Comment: Cuba Reports New U.S. Regulations on Travel and Trade  
  01/22/15 Bills to End U.S. Embargo of Cuba Introduced in House of Representatives  
  01/27/15 Comment: Additional Sponsors of Bill To End Embargo of Cuba  
  02/13/15 Senator Klobuchar Introduces Bill to End U.S. Embargo of Cuba  
  06/16/15 New Senate Bill To End U.S. Embargo of Cuba  
  07/28/15 Bipartisan Bill To End Embargo of Cuba Introduced in House of Representatives  
  07/29/15 Comment: More Details for H.R.3238  
  08/06/15 Comment: Representative Emmer Discusses His Bill To End the Embargo  
  08/05/15 Is the U.S. Congress Rethinking the U.S. Embargo of Cuba?  
  09/16/15 Cuba’s Foreign Minister’s Comments on U.S. Embargo and Pope’s Upcoming Visit to Cuba  
  09/17/15 Comment: Another Estimate of Cuba’s Alleged Damages from U.S. Embargo  
  09/17/15 Comment: Cuban Foreign Minister’s Full Remarks on Cuba’s Alleged Damages from U.S. Embargo  
  10/01/15 Presidents Obama and Castro Speak and Meet at United Nations  
  10/15/15 U.S. Governors Call for Ending U.S. Embargo Against Cuba  
  10/28/15 Another U.N. General Assembly Resolution Condemning U.S. Embargo of Cuba  
  01/22/16 Comment: Representative Tom Emmer’s Efforts To End Cuba Embargo  
  01/14/16 Does President Obama Have Legal Authority Too Adopt More Limitations on the Scope of the U.S. Embargo of Cuba?  
  01/26/16 U.S. Loosens Restrictions on Transactions with Cuba  
  02/26/16 Current Status of Efforts To End U.S. Embargo of Cuba  
  10/27/16 Another U.N. Condemnation of U.S. Embargo of Cuba  
1082 11/01/17 Another U.N. General Assembly Resolution Condemning U.S. Embargo (Blockade) of Cuba  
1206 06/07/18 Pentagon Plans for Long-term Continued Use of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba  
 1303 11/02/18 Yet Another U.N. General Assembly Resolution Condemning U.S. Embargo (Blockade) of Cuba  
1347 02/09/19 New Bill to End U.S. Embargo of Cuba  
1350 02/18/19 Senator Leahy’s Senate Floor Speech To End Embargo of Cuba  
1385 04/30/19 U.S. and Cuban Churches Denounce U.S. Embargo and Recent Additonal U.S. Actions Against Cuba  
1347 02/09/19 New Bill To End U.S. Embargo of Cuba  
1350 02/18/19 Senator Leahy’s Senate Floor Speech To End Embargo of Cuba  
1385 04/30/19  U.S. and Cuban Churches Denounce U.S. Enbargio and Recent Additional U.S. Actions Agaisnt Cuba  
1395 05/15/19 New Bill To Expand U.S. Agricultural Exports to Cuba  
1481 11/08/19 U.N. General Assembly Again Condemns U.S. Embargo of Cuba  
    U.S. & Guantanao Bay, Cuba  
  02/27/15 Senate Committee Approves Bill To Limit Releases of Guantanamo Detainees  
  04/04/15 Resolution of Issues Regarding Cuba-U.S. Lease of Guantanamo Bay  
  04/26/15 Does Cuba Have the Right To Terminate the U.S. Lease of Guantanamo Bay?  
  07/01/15 Comment: U.S. Discussion with Cuba About Using Guantanamo Bay for Detention of Global War on Terrorism Suspects?  
1131 01/31/18 President Trump’s Unsound Action Regarding the U.S. Prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba  
1133 02/02/18 Guantanamo: Trump’s Order Reignites Controversy  
1206 06/07/18 Pentagon Plans for Long-Term continued Use of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba  
1455 09/17/19 Guantanamo Bay: The World’s Most Expensive Prison  
    U.S. & Cuba Damage Claims  
  04/06/15 Resolution of U.S. and Cuba’s Damage Claims  
  12/13/15 Resolving U.S. and Cuba’s Damage Claims  
  12/14/15 Comment: Additional Details About U.S. and Cuba’s Damage Claims  
  05/18/15 Old Cuban Court Judgment for Money Damages Against U.S. Government  
  07/03/15 Comment by Greg Klave Regarding U.S. and World Court  
  07/03/15 Comment: U.S. and World Court  
  07/30/16 U.S. and Cuba Discuss Damage Claims  
  08/02/16 Cuba Says Claims Discussions with U.S. Will Not Proceed Quickly  
  08/06/16 Reactions to Cuba Statement That Claims Discussions Will Not go Quickly  
    Cuban Human Rights  
  01/01/12 International Law Regarding Freedom of Religion  
  12/30/11 The Cuban Revolution and Religion  
  01/05/12 U.S. Government’s Opinions on Religious Freedom in Cuba  
  01/08/12 Cuban Religious Freedom According to the U.S. Commission on Assistance to a Free Cuba  
  04/04/12 Cuban Protestant Leader: Cuban Religious Freedom  
  08/01/12 The Latest U.S. Report on International Religious Freedom  
  08/03/12 Cuban Religious Freedom According to the Latest U.S. Report on International Religious Freedom  
  05/22/13 Latest U.S. Reports on International Religious Freedom  
  05/25/13 Cuban Religious Freedom (U.S. Department of State)  
  05/27/13 Cuban Religious Freedom (U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)  
  05/29/13 U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (Structure and Composition)  
  06/19/13 Other Voices on Cuban Religious Freedom  
  03/07/14 Other Details about Congressional Briefing by Cuban Religious Leaders  
  06/24/14 The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s Annual Report 2014  
  07/31/14 U.S. State Department’s 2013 Report on International Religious Freedom  
  06/26/14 Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Takes Actions Regarding Cuba  
  11/19/14 Cuban Government Meets with Religious Leaders  
  07/28/16 U.S. State Department Statement on Cuban Religious Freedom  
  05/28/18 Cuba Religious Freedom in the Eyes of the U.S. Commission on International Religiious Freedom  
  05/29/18 Cuba Religious Freedom in the Eyes of the U.S. State Department  
  05/25/18 Cuban Ladies in White Win Cato Institute’s Milton friedman Prize  
  03/07/14 U.S. State Department’s Latest Report on Cuban Human Rights  
  03/10/14 U.S. Policy Implications of State Department’s Report on Cuban Human Rights  
  03/07/18 Cuban Violations of Press Freedom in 2017  
  04/26/18 Press Freedom Problems in Cuba and the United States  
  04/21/18 New U.S. Annual Report on Human Rights Around the World  
  04/22/18 U.S. Current Assessment of Cuban Human Rights  
  05/15/18 Cuba Claims to Have One of the Best Human Rights Records in the World  
  04/30/18 Cuba’s Human Rights Record Beiing Subjected to Universal Periodic Review by U.N. Human Rights Council  
  05/11/18 Advance Questions for Cuba’s Universal Periodic Review by the U.N. Human Rights Council  
  05/24/18 Cuba’s Universal Periodic Review Hearing by the U.N. Human Rights Council  
  05/26/18 Summary of UPR Recommendations for Cuba  
  06/27/18 U.S. Asks Cuba To Release Two “Prisoners of Conscience”  
  06/28/18 Washington Post Demands Release of Two Cuban “Prisoners of Conscience”  
  07/04/18 Ariel Ruiz Urquiola Has Been Paroled  
  07/01/18 Cuba Remains on “Tier 2-Watch List” in U.S. State Department’s Annual Human Trafficking Report  
  08/26/18 Update on Universal Periodic Review of Cuba Human rRghts Record  
  09/15/18 U.N. Criticizes Cuba for Reprisals Against Citizens Cooperating with U.N. Human rights Activities  
  09/21/18 U.N. Human Rights Council’s Final Consideration of Cuba’s UPR  
  09/22/18 Other Reports on the Recent Human Rihgts Council’s Discussion of Cuban Human Rights  
    U.S. Democracy Promotion in Cuba  
  04/04/14 U.S. Secret Cuba Social Media Program Raises Questions about the Validity of Criticisms of Cuba by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom  
  04/08/14 Comment: Other Opinions on the USAID’s Secret Social Media Program for Cuba  
  08/23/14 Comment: Costa Rica To Investigate Use of Its Citizens and Territory for USAID’s Anti-Cuban Programs  
  04/09/14 U.S. Senate Hearing Discusses USAID’s Social Media Program for Cuba  
  04/09/14 What Is Wrong with the White House’s Plan for Democracy in Cuba?  
  05/25/14 Former U.S. Diplomats and Officials Urge President Obama To Expand U.S. Involvement with Cuba  
  08/12/14 Yet Another USAID Effort To Promote Regime Change in Cuba  
  08/23/14 Comment: Costa Rica To Investigate Use of Its Citizens and Territory for USAID’s Anti-Cuban Programs  
  08/13/14 Another USAID Effort To Promote Regime Change in Cuba: U.S. Government’s Reactions  
  08/14/14 Another USAID Effort To Promote Regime Change in Cuba: Other Reactions  
  08/23/14 Comment: Costa Rica To Investigate Use of Its Citizens and Territory for USAID’s Anti-Cuban Programs  
  11/10/14 New York Times Criticizes USAID’s Efforts To Promote Regime Change in Cuba  
  01/06/15 Rejection of Criticism of Cuba’s Cancellation of Open-Microphone Event in Havana’s Plaza de la Revolucion and Arrests of Its Organizers  
  01/08/15 Comment: Minnesota Criticism of Possible Prosecution of Protesters To Recover Damages  
  01/09/15 Comment: Editorial about Minnesota Mall Protest  
  01/15/15 Comment: Criminal Charges Against Minnesota Mall Protestors  
  01/15/15 Comment: Developments Regarding 53 Released Cuban Detainees  
  01/20/15 Comment: Criticism of Prosecution of Minnesota Mall Protesters  
  03/23/15 Comment: Mall Prosecution Continues  
  01/07/15 Email to President Obama Objecting to Covert or “Discreet” U.S. Government Programs Purportedly Promoting Democracy and Human Rights In Cuba  
  11/06/15 Reforming U.S. “Democracy Promotion” Programs in Cuba  
  03/30/16 Cuba’s Opposition to Proposed U.S. Democracy Promotion Program  
  04/30/16 U.S. Covert or “Discreet” Democracy Promotion Programs in Cuba  
  10/25/16 U.S. Continues Objectionable “Democracy Promotion” Programs in Cuba  
    Cuban Medical Personnel & U.S.  
  10/19/14 New York Times Commends Cuba for Fighting Ebola in West Africa and Again Urges U.S.-Cuba Normalization  
  10/20/14 Comment: U.S. Infectious Disease Expert Applauds Cuba Ebola fighting in West Africa  
  10/23/14 Comment: U.S. and Cuba To Collaborate in Fighting Ebola  
  11/02/14 Comment: US. Attends Ebola Meeting In Cuba  
  11/19/14 Comment: Cuban Doctor in Sierra Leone Catches Ebola  
  11/21/14 Comment: Cuban Doctor with Ebola in Switzerland for Treatment  
  12/07/14 Comment: Cuban Ebola Patient Recovers  
  11/22/14 New York Times Calls for End of U.S. Program for Special Immigration Relief for Cuban Medical Personnel  
  01/08/16 U.S. Ending Its Cuban Medical Personnel Parole Program?  
  08/21/15 Comment: State Department Confirms No Plan To Stop Cuban Medical Parole Plan  
  08/07/15 U.S. Upgrades Cuba in State Department’s Annual Report on Human Trafficking  
  11/30/15 Comment: Cuban Doctors’ Reflections on Medical Missions  
  11/16/15 U.S. State Department’s 2015 Human Trafficking Report’s Objectivity Still Unresolved  
  07/02/16 U.S. Reasserts Upgrade of Cuba in Annual Human Trafficking Report  
  07/20/16 U.S. Senate Hearing on 2016 Trafficking in Persons Report  
  09/02/16 U.S. Continues Its Absurd Special Immigration Benefits for Cubans  
  11/07/16 Cuban Doctors in Brazil Seek Court Order To Remain in Brazil  
  08/17/17 U.S. State Department Unjustly Continues to Allege That Cuba’s Foreign Medical Missions Engage in forced Labor  
  03/15/18 Cuba Medical Professionals Continue To Escape from Medical Missions  
    Cuba Migration to U.S.  
  11/20/15 Cubans in Central America Provide Cuba with an Opportunity To Reiterate Its Objections to U.S. Immigration Policies  
  11/24/15 Comment: Reply to Greg Klave Comment  
  11/24/15 Comment: Reply to Another Greg Klave Comment  
  11/27/15 Update on Cuban Migrants in Central America  
  12/04/15 President Obama Should Exercise His Legal Authority To End U.S. Admission of Cubans with “”Dry Feet”  
  12/21/15 New York Times Calls for End to Special U.S. Immigration Program for Cubans  
  12/11/15 Status of Cuban Migrants in Central America Still Unresolved  
  12/14/15 Comment: Costa Rica and Cuba To Discuss Cuban Migrants  
  12/16/15 Comment: Costa Rican and Cuban Presidents Discuss Cuban Migrants  
  12/27/15 Comment: Costa Rica To Deport Some Cubans  
  12/30/15 Resolution of Problem of Cuban Migrants Stranded in Costa Rica  
  01/21/16 Cuban Migration Developments  
  04/17/16 Another Cuban Migrant Problem in Central America  
  12/01/15 U.S. and Cuba Fail To Resolve Complaints About U.S. Immigration Policies  
  12/03/15 Comment: U.S. State Department Comments on Cuban Migration and Counter-Narcotics Talks  
  05/10/16 Continued Cuban Migrant Problem in Central America  
  09/02/16 U.S. Continues Its Absurd Special Immigration Benefits for Cubans  
  09/06/16 Projected Cuban Population: Stabilizing and Aging  
    Cuban Economy  
  11/07/14 Comment: Cuba’s Problems in Developing Mariel Deep-Sea Port  
  04/01/16 Port of Mariel Cuba Has Great Potential for U.S. Business  
  04/16/16 Cuban Communist Party Holding Its Seventh Congress  
  04/18/16 Raúl Castro Discusses Cuba-U.S. Relations in Report to Seventh Congress of Communist Party of Cuba  
  04/19/16 Raúl Castro Discusses Socio-Economic Issues in Report to Seventh Congress of Communist Party of Cuba  
  04/20/16 Conclusion of Seventh Congress of Communist Party of Cuba  
  04/20/16 Comment: U.S. Downplays Criticism by Cuban Officials  
  04/22/16 U.S. State Department Comments on Seventh Congress of Communist Party of Cuba  
  04/21/16 Other Signs of Cuban Regime’s Distress Over Economy  
  05/25/16 Cuba To Legalize Small and Medium-Sized Private Businesses  
  05/26/16 Comment: Other Comments on Cuba’s Licensing of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses  
  05/27/16 Comment: Online Report of Communist Party of Cuba  
  05/31/16 Caveats to Cuba’s Communist Party’s Decision to Legalize Small and Medium-Sized Businesses  
  06/01/16 Cuba Press Offers Positive Press About the Island’s Private Enterprise Section  
  06/17/16 Comment: Another Positive Granma Article About Cuba’s Private Enterprise Sector  
  07/13/16 Grim Cuban Economic News  
  07/14/16 Comment: New Position for Murillo  
  07/15/16 Analysis of What Cuba’s Minister of Economy and Planning Said to Cuba’s Legislature  
  08/01/16 Economists Discuss Current Cuban Economic and Political Situation  
  09/13/16 U.S. and Cuba Hold Economic Discussions  
  10/17/16 Cuba Addresses Its Declining and Aging Population  
  05/29/17 Cuba’s Birth Rate Declined in 2016  
  12/14/16 Cuba Faces Economic Challenges  
  12/15/16 Cuba’s Tourism Sector Projects Successful 2016 and 2017  
  12/26/16 Cuba’s Economic and Political Challenges for 2017  
  12/28/16 Cuban Government’s Bleak Economic Assessment for Cuba  
  01/10/17 Cuba’s Private-Ownership Sector Faces Dual Uncertainties  
  12/14/16 Cuba’s Economic Ties with Venezuela Are Fraying  
  03/17/17 Granma’s Positive View of Cuban free Enterprise  
  03/22/17 Cubans Want Economic Growth and Opportunity  
  03/24/17 Economic Problems Bedevil Cuban Government and President Raúl Castro  
  03/26/17 Elderly Cubans Unable to Retire  
  10/19/17 Cuba Pays $60 Million to Major Creditor Nations  
  10/23/17 Emerging Development of Cuba’s Mariel Port  
  11/18/17 Trump’s New Regulations Adversel;y Affect Cuban Entrepreneurs  
  11/22/17 Cuba’s Many Problems Prompt Speculation Galore  
  01/16/18 Is Cuba Concealing Bad Economic Data?  
  02/23/18 Upcoming Cuba Regulations on Free Enterprise?  
  03/27/18 Cuba’s Communist Party Admits Errors in Liberalization of Economy  
  03/31/18 Vietnamese Communist Party Official Advocates Economic Reforms for Cuba  
  04/05/18 Economic Challenges Faccing Cuba’s New President  
  04/25/18 Drop in Foreign Tourists for Cuba  
  05/13/18 More Details on Cuba’s Foreign Tourism  
  05/14/18 European Union to Fund 40 Million Euro Projects in Cuba  
  05/14/18 Perspective on Swedish Politician’s Quote in Post  
  06/03/18 A Pessimistic Assessment of Cuba’s Economic Future  
  07/10/18 Cuba Announces New Regulations for Private Business  
  07/11/18 More Details on New Cuban Regulations on Private Business  
  07/13/18 Yet More Details on Cuba’s New Regulations for Private Business  
  07/28/18 Economists See Cuban Economy in Dire Straits  
  08/04/18 Criticism of Cuba’s New Regulations for Private Enterprise  
    U.S.-Cuba History, 1789-2010  
  12/15/16 Early U.S. Desire To Own or Control Cuba Driven by U.S. Slaveholders  
1438 08/26/19 U.S. Intervention in Cuba’s War of Independence from Spain, 1898  
1407 06/20/19 Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders Involvement in Cuba’s War of Independence from Spain  
  04/23/17 U.S. Entry Into the Cuban War of Independence and Establishment of the Protectorate of Cuba, 1898-1934  
1439 08/27/19 U.S. De Facto Protectorate of Cuba, 1898-1934  
1400 05/26/19 President Eisenhower and U.S. Covert Plan Against Cuba  
  09/05/16 Fidel Castro-Nikita Khrushchev’s Messages During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962  
  11/02/16 Conflicting Opinions Regarding the Relative Strength of U.S. and Soviet Missiles, 1960-1962  
  05/30/16 Covert CIA 1966 Operation To Assassinate Fidel Castro?  
  08/13/16 Fidel Castro Criticizes President Obama  
  08/15/16 Fidel Castro’s Disingenuous Criticism of President Obama Over Nuclear Weapons  
  10/27/17 JFK Files and Cuba  
  10/28/17 Additional Anti-Cuba Details in JFK Files  
  11/04/17 Did Fidel Order Killing of President Kennedy?  
  09/04/17 Bobby Kennedy’s Obsession with Combatting Communist Cuba  
1440 08/28/19 Mexican Historian’s Disavowal of Support for Fidel Castro  
    U.S.-Cuba Relations, 2011-2014  
  05/21/11 The U.S. Should Pursue Reconciliation with Cuba  
  11/21/11 Comment: Additional Support for U.S.-Cuba Reconciliation  
  07/27/12 Comment: Cuba Reiterates Its Willingness To Discuss All Issues with U.S.  
  10/20/12 Comment: Another Plea for Normalization of U.S.-Cuba Relations  
  09/24/11 Commutation and Release of Convicted “Spies”  
  09/27/11 Roots of Hope for U.S.-Cuba Relations  
  09/28/11 Comment: Cuban Foreign Minister Attacks U.S. Policies  
  09/29/11 President Obama Is Wrong on Cuba  
  10/15/11 Comment: Obama and Romney Out of Touch on Cuba  
  12/10/11 Comment: U.S. Church Leaders Call for U.S.-Cuba Reconciliation  
  10/14/11 U.S. and Cuba Discuss Exchange of Prisoners  
  10/15/11 Comment: Cuban-Americans in Congress Criticize U.S. Willingness To Discuss Issues with Cuba  
  08/17/12 Letter to President Obama Regarding Cuba  
  09/07/12 Positive Developments for Improved U.S.-Cuba Relations  
  09/08/12 Comment: Details on Cuba’s Assistance for Colombia-FARC Negotiations  
  09/17/12 Comment: Skepticism About Colombia-FARC Negotiations  
  10/14/12 Comment: Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez Aided Colombia and the FARC’s Agreeing to Negotiate an End to the Colombian Civil War  
  09/06/14 Tom Hayden: Will U.S.-Cuba Normalization Fail Again [Re-posting]  
  10/04/14 Continued Bad News About U.S. Policies Regarding Cuba  
  10/09/14 Comment: U.S. Now Willing To Accept Cuba at Summit of Americas?  
  10/13/14 New York Times Urges U.S.-Cuba Reconciliation  
  10/21/14 Comment: Washington Post Says U.S. Embargo of Cuba Should Not End  
  10/16/14 President Obama’s Response to This Blog’s Latest Post Urging U.S.-Cuba Reconciliation  
  10/17/14 Comment by David A. Nichols on Normalization of U.S.-Cuba Relations  
  10/18/14 Comment: Blog Post Sent to President Obama  
  10/18/14 Comment: Fidel Castro and Ladies-in-White Co-Founder Endorse Normalization of U.S.-Cuba Relations  
  10/26/14 New York Times Again Urges Normalization of U.S.-Cuba Relations  
  10/31/14 Comment: Readers Support Times’ Editorials on U.S.-Cuba Relations  
  11/03/14 New York Times Recommends U.S.-Cuba Prisoner Exchange  
  11/07/14 Comment: Support for U.S.-Cuba Prisoner Exchange  
    U.S. (Obama) & Cuba, 2007-2014  
  0713/15 Barack Obama’s Comments About Cuba During His Campaign for the Democratic Party’s Presidential Nomination, 2007-2008  
  07/17/15 Barack Obama’s Comments About Cuba During His Campaign for the Presidency, August 28 through November 4, 2008  
  07/20/15 President Obama’s First-Term Record Regarding Cuba, 2009-2013  
  07/31/15 President Barack Obama’s Lack of Comments Regarding Cuba in His Re-Election Campaign of 2012  
  08/02/15 President Barack Obama’s Second-Term Record Regarding Cuba, 2013-2014  
  01/05/15 Additional Details About White House’s Announcement of U.S.-Cuba Reconciliation  
  03/23/15 New Details About U.S. Secret Normalization Negotiations with Cuba  
  07/05/15 Additional Information About U.S. Reactions to Restoration of U.S.-Cuba Diplomatic Relations  
  08/14/15 Additional Details About U.S.-Cuba Secret Discussions Leading Up to December 17, 2014,  Announcement of Rapprochement  
    U.S. (Obama) & Cuba (Normalization), 2014  
  12/21/14 U.S. and Cuba Embark on Reconciliation  
  12/22/14 Praise God for Leading U.S. and Cuba to Reconciliation  
  12/26/14 President Obama’s Strategic Timing of Announcement of U.S.-Cuba Reconciliation  
  12/31/14 U.S. Imprisonment of “The Cuban Five” and Their Recent Releases from U.S. Prison  
  01/02/15 Comment by Jeanne Foley  
  01/20/15 Comment: News about “The Cuban Five”  
    U.S. (Obama) & Cuba (Normalization), 2015  
  01/10/15 Launching of United States Agricultural Coalition for Cuba  
  01/16/15 Comment: Cargill’s Leading Agricultural Coalition for Cuba  
  01/12/15 Cuba Fulfills Its Commitment To Release 53 Political Prisoners  
  01/18/15 This Week’s U.S.-Cuba Meetings in Havana  
  01/20/15 U.S. Congressional Meetings in Havana  
  01/20/15 Comment: Words on Cuba by Senator Leahy After Three Days of Meeting in Cuba  
  01/21/15 Cuba’s Perspective on This Week’s U.S.-Cuba Diplomatic Meetings  
  01/25/15 U.S. and Cuba Hold Inconclusive Talks for Restoring Diplomatic Relations  
  01/27/15 Cuba’s Unhappiness with U.S. Meeting with Cuban Dissidents  
  01/30/15 Obama’s Negative Reaction to Netanyahu’s Planned Speech to the U.S. Congress Validates cuba’s Negative Reaction to U.S. Meeting with Cuban Dissidents  
  02/04/15 Comment: Tom Friedman Also Criticizes Netanyahu’s Planned Speech to U.S. Congress  
  02/04/15 International Reactions to U.S.-Cuba Reconciliation  
  02/07/15 Cuba’s Reactions to U.S.-Cuba Reconciliation  
  02/11/15 U.S. Government’s Reactions to U.S.-Cuba Reconciliation  
  02/12/15 American People’s Reactions to U.S.-Cuba Reconciliation  
  02/12/15 Comment: Twin Cities Newspaper Endorses U.S-Cuba Reconciliation  
  02/16/15 Recent News about U.S. Governments Actions Regarding Cuba  
  02/16/15 More Observations on Cuba’s Reactions to U.S.-Cuba Reconciliation  
  02/17/15 Other Opinion Polls Confirm Broad American Support for U.S.-Cuba Reconciliation  
  02/18/15 More U.S. Senators Visit Cuba  
  02/20/15 Nancy Pelosi and Other House Democrats Visit Cuba  
  02/24/15 Issues Regarding Cuba and U.S. Extradition of the Other’s Fugitives  
  12/16/17 Congressional Proposal for Extradition of U.S. Fugitives in Cuba  
  03/06/15 U.S. and Cuba Hold Productive Second Round of Negotiations  
  03/08/15 U.S. Agricultural Coalition for Cuba Sends Delegation to Island  
  03/22/15 Comment: Coalition Chair Speaks About Cuba Trip  
  03/23/15 Comment: Minnesota Bill To Help Farmers Export to Cuba  
  03/15/15 U.N. Human Rights Council Is Warned About Human Rights Violations  
  03/18/15 U.S.-Cuba Hold Unproductive Extended Second Round of Talks  
  03/21/15 U.S. Praises Cuba’s Record on Narcotics Trafficking  
  03/24/15 Essay About Archbishop Oscar Romero in Cuban Newspaper  
  03/25/15 Cuba Meets with European Union and Russian Foreign Ministers  
  03/26/15 U.S. Radio and Television Broadcasts to Cuba at a Crossroads  
  03/27/15 Cuba and U.S. To Discuss Human Rights  
  03/28/15 Issues of Cuban Human Rights To Be Discussed by Cuba and U.S. (Part I)  
  03/29/15 Issues of Cuban Human Rights To Be Discussed by Cuba and U.S. (Part II)  
  03/30/15 Issues of Cuban Human Rights To Be Discussed by Cuba and U.S. (Part III)  
  04/01/15 Results of U.S. and Cuba’s First Meeting About Human Rights  
  04/08/15 U.S. Clarifies Positions on Cuba and Venezuela in Preparation for Summit of the Americas  
  04/09/15 Seventh Summit of Americas Is Underway in Panama  
  04/16/15 President Obama’s Major Speech at the Summit of the Americas  
  04/17/15 President Castro’s Major Speech at the Summit of the Americas  
  04/18/15 Presidents Obama and Castro’s Meeting at the Summit of the Americas  
  04/19/15 Other Remarks by President Obama at the Seventh Summit of the Americas  
  04/21/15 Cuba Holds Municipal Elections  
  04/25/15 Comment: More Details About Cuba’s Municipal Elections  
  04/28/15 Comment: Final Results of Cuba’s Municipal Election  
  04/22/15 Committee To Protect Journalists Criticizes Cuba’s Censorship of the Press  
  04/24/15 Comment: Committee To Protect Journalists Background  
  04/28/15 Comment: Committee To Protect Journalists Issues Alarming Annual Report  
  04/28/15 Council of Americas and Americas Society: Other Supporters of U.S.-Cuba Reconciliation  
  04/30/15 Senate Hearing on Expanding U.S. Agricultural Trade with Cuba  
  05/04/15 Religious Leaders Support U.S.-Cuba Reconciliation  
  05/06/15 Oppose Congressional Attempts To Restrict U.S. Travel to Cuba!  
  05/14/15 Comment: House Appropriations Committee Approves Restrictions on U.S. Travel to Cuba  
  05/09/15 Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Criticizes Cuban Human Rights  
  05/13/15  Imminent Restoration of U.S.-Cuba Normal Diplomatic   Relations?  
  05/21/15 Another U.S. Coalition for U.S.-Cuba Reconciliation  
  05/22/15 U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Holds Hearing About Cuba  
  05/25/15 Update on Proposed U.S. Legislation Supporting U.S.-Cuba Reconciliation  
  05/26/15 Update on Proposed U.S. Legislation Opposing U.S.-Cuba Reconciliation  
  05/28/15 Pending Congressional Appropriation and Authorization Bills Relating to Cuba  
  05/29/15 More Congressional Delegations Visit Cuba  
  06/01/15 Assessment of the Status of U.S.-Cuba Reconciliation  
  06/02/15 U.S. House Committee Proposes to Impose Impediments to U.S.-Cuba Reconciliation  
  06/04/15 More Details Regarding Issues for Re-establishment of U.S.-Cuba Diplomatic Relations  
  06/10/15 U.S. House Approves Impediments to U.S.-Cuba Reconciliation  
  06/12/15 More House Republican Efforts To Impede U.S.-Cuba Reconciliation  
  06/14/15 U.S. Supreme Court Decision Bolsters Obama Administration’s Normalizing Relations with Cuba  
  06/18/15 Two Major U.S. Groups Urge Congress To Promote U.S. Trade and Travel with Cuba  
  06/23/15 Update on Congressional Actions Regarding Cuba  
  06/26/15 U.S. Annual Human Rights Report Again Criticizes Cuba  
  06/29/15 Why Did Senator Leahy and Two Other Senators Visit Cuba Last Week?  
  07/01/15 U.S. Announces Agreement To Restore Diplomatic Relations with Cuba  
  07/02/15 Cuba Announces Agreement To Restore Diplomatic Relations with U.S.  
  07/02/15 Comment by Greg Klave re McCollum Bill Against Radio and TV Marti  
  07/02/15 Comment: Details about McCollum Bill Against Radio and TV Marti  
  07/03/15 White House Press Secretary and Senate Majority Leader Offer Conflicting Comments About U.S.-Cuba Relations  
  07/09/15 Cuba Explains Path to Restoration of U.S.-Cuba Diplomatic Relations  
  07/21/15 The Reopening of Cuba and U.S. Embassies  
  07/21/15 Comment about Warren Smith by Greg Klave  
  07/21/15 Comment: Reply to Greg Klave about Warren Smith  
  07/22/15 Joint Press Conference of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Cuba Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez  
  07/23/15 Comments About Cuba by White House Press Secretary  
  07/27/15 Reactions to U.S. and Cuba Reopening Embassies and Other Issues Regarding U.S.-Cuba Reconciliation  
  11/25/14 Comment: U.N. Has Positive Report on Cuba’s Anti-Trafficking Efforts  
  08/11/15 Cuba Commemorates Its 1960 Nationalizing Certain U.S. Properties  
  08/12/15 U.S. Supreme Court Comments on U.S.-Cuba History  
  08/16/15 U.S. Secretary of State Speaks to Cuban People  
  08/18/15 Results of U.S.-Cuba Discussions After Ceremonial Opening of U.S. Embassy in Havana  
  08/19/15 Comment: U.S. Says No Deadline to Resume Airliner Service with Cuba  
  08/19/15 U.S. Should Offer Aid to Cuba to Combat Drought  
  08/20/15 U.S. Secretary of State Meets with Cuban Dissidents  
  08/22/15 Beautiful Poem Celebrates Ceremonial Opening of U.S. Embassy in Havana  
  08/24/15 Kerry’s Meeting with Cuban Dissidents Gets Rave Reviews  
  09/12/15 U.S.-Cuba Bilateral Commission Sets Agenda for Future Discussion of Remaining Issues  
  09/18/15 U.S. Announces Concrete Improvements in Relations with Cuba  
  10/15/15 U.S. Governors Call for Ending U.S. Embargo Against Cuba  
  11/08/15 Developments in U.S.-Cuba Normalization  
  11/09/15 Comment: Next Meeting of U.S.-Cuba Bilateral Commission  
  11/09/15 Comment: U.S. and Cuba Hold Law-Enforcement Dialogue  
  11/11/15 Results of Second Meeting of U.S.-Cuba Bilateral Commission  
  11/11/15 Reply to 11/11/15 Comment by Greg Klave  
  11/12/15 Cuban Realities Adversely Affecting Normalization with U.S.  
  11/18/15 U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Visits Cuba  
  12/18/15 Commemorating the First Anniversary of U.S.-Cuba Rapprochement  
  12/19/15 Raul Castro’s Declaration Regarding the First Anniversary of U.S.-Cuba Rapprochement  
  12/21/15 Comment: U.S. Opposition to U.S.-Cuba Reconciliation  
    Pope Francis Visits to Cuba & U.S., 2015  
  05/10/15 Pope Francis Holds Private Audience with Raúl Castro  
  09/14/15 Cuba Prepares for Pope Francis Trip with Conflicting Actions Regarding Prisoners  
  09/15/15 Comment: Details About Increasing Social Work of Cuban Churches  
  09/18/15 Pope Francis’ Message to the Cuban People  
  09/20/15 The First Day of Pope Francis’ Mission to the Cuban People  
  09/21/15 The Second Day of Pope Francis’ Mission to the Cuban People  
  09/25/15 The Third Day of Pope Francis’ Mission to the Cuban People  
  09/26/15 The Fourth Day of Pope Francis’ Mission to the Cuban People  
  09/27/15 The First Day of Pope Francis’ Mission to the American People  
  09/27/15 The Second Day of Pope Francis’ Mission to the American People  
  09/29/15 The Third Day of Pope Francis’ Mission to the American People  
  10/05/15 The Fourth Day of Pope Francis’ Mission to the American People  
  10/06/15 The Fifth Day of Pope Francis’ Mission to the American People  
  10/07/15 The Sixth Day of Pope Francis’ Mission to the American People  
  10/26/15 A Protestant Christian’s Reactions to Pope Francis’ Missions to the Cuban and American Peoples  
    U.S. (Obama) & Cuba (Normalization),, 2016  
  01/10/16 Cuba’s Possession of U.S. Missile Threatens To Disrupt U.S.-Cuba Normalization  
  01/12/16 Comment: Cuba-North Korea Ties Are Risk to Hellfire Technology  
  01/12/16 Comment: A Skeptical View of Significance of Cuba’s Possession of Hellfire Missile  
  01/12/16 Comment: Further Details on White House Comments About Hellfire Missile in Cuba  
  02/15/16 Cuba Returns Hellfire Missile to U.S.  
  02/22/16 Cuba’s Next President: Miguel Diaz-Canal?  
  02/24/16 Cuba Consortium’s Conference on “Prospects for United States Cuba Normalization, Commerce and investment”  
  03/05/16 Another U.S. Event Promoting U.S.-Cuba Reconciliation  
  03/25/16 President Obama’s Eloquent Speech to the Cuban People  
  03/26/16 Reactions to President Obama’s Speech to the Cuban People  
  03/28/16 Fidel Castro Challenges President Obama’s Call To Forget the Past  
  03/31/16 Other Reactions to Fidel Castro’s Commentary on President Obama’s Trip  
  04/08/16 President Obama Continues To Demonstrate His Intelligence, Eloquence and Performance  
  04/09/06 Comment: Obama Has Been a Transformational President  
  12/23/16 President Obama’s Speech to the Cuban People: One of His Top Speeches  
  04/14/16 Different Views of the Cuban Health Care System?  
  04/15/16 Another Negative Review of Cuban Human Rights by U.S. State Department  
  04/27/16 U.S. State Department Announces Free the Press Campaign  
  04/28/16 Cuba Gets Low Marks on Press Freedom from Committee to Protect Journalists  
  05/04/16 Prominent Latin American Journalist’s Critical Observations About Cuba  
  05/18/16 United States-Cuba Bilateral Commission Meets To Review Normalization Status  
  05/19/16 United States and Cuba Hold Second Law Enforcement Dialogue  
  05/27/16 Cuba and Nine Other Countries Deny U.N. Accreditation to Committee to Protect Journalists  
  05/28/16 Comment: U.N. Secretary-General Criticizes  Rejection of Committee to Protect Journalists  
  06/10/16 United States and Cuba Discuss Counterterrorism Cooperation  
  06/16/16 Comment: U.S. Fugitives in Cuba Not Afraid of Extradition  
  07/16/16 U.S. and Cuba Hold Inconclusive Meetings About Trade and Economic Regulations and Migration  
  09/20/16 Cuban-Americans Support U.S.-Cuba Normalization  
  09/21/16 IRS’ Unjustified Threats Against IFCO/Pastors for Peace  
  09/28/16 Cuba’s Foreign Minister Advocates Cuban Interests at U.N.  
  09/29/16 Non-Aligned Movement Holds Summit in Venezuela  
  09/30/16 Presidential Nomination of U.S. Ambassador to Cuba  
  09/30/16 U.S. and Cuba Hold Another Meeting of the Bilateral Commission  
  10/05/16 President Obama’s Reflections on His Pursuit of Normalization with Cuba  
  10/07/16 Cuban Police Search and Seize Property of Independent Legal Center  
  10/14/16 President Obama Issues Presidential Policy Directive–United States-Cuba Normalization  
  10/16/16 Reactions to New Presidential Policy Directive on U.S.-Cuba Normalization  
  10/21/16 U.S. Professor’s Critique of U.S. Presidential Policy Directive –United States-Cuba Normalization  
  11/03/16 Answers to Cuba’s Questions About U.S. Presidential Policy Directive on U.S.-Cuba Normalization  
  10/17/16 U.S. and Cuba Hold Another Meeting To Discuss Human Rights  
  10/19/16 Washington Post Editorial Blasts Cuban Human Rights  
  11/10/16 Cuba Announces Defensive Military Exercises  
  11/23/16 Cuba Conducts Defensive Military Exercise  
  11/30/16 U.S. Reactions to Death of Fidel Castro  
  12/09/16 U.S. and Cuba’s Efforts To Continue Normalization  
  12/13/16 Cuba’s Recent Arrests of Journalists  
  12/20/16 Subdued Commemoration of Second Anniversary of U.S.-Cuba Rapprochement  
  12/21/16 More Cuban Arrests of Dissidents  
    U.S. (Obama) & Cuba (Normalization), 2017  
  01/05/17 Secretary of State John Kerry’s Review of His Stewardship of U.S. Foreign Policy Regarding Cuba, https://dwkcommentaries.com/2017/01/05/secretary-of-state-john-kerrys-review-of-his-stewardship-of-u-s-foreign-policy-regarding-cuba/  
  01/06/17 U.S. Secretaries of Commerce and Treasury Comment on Developments Regarding Cuba, https://dwkcommentaries.com/2017/01/06/u-s-secretaries-of-commerce-and-of-treasury-comment-on-developments-regarding-cuba/  
  01/13/17 U.S. Ends Special Immigration Benefits for Cubans, https://dwkcommentaries.com/2017/01/13/u-s-ends-special-immigration-benefits-for-cubans/  
  01/13/17 Plaudits (2 to 1) for Ending U.S. Special Immigration Benefits for Cubans  
  01/14/17 Additional Reactions to End of U.S. Special Immigration Benefits for Cubans, https://dwkcommentaries.com/2017/01/14/additional-reactions-to-end-of-u-s-immigration-benefits-for-cubans/  
  01/15/17 Other Current Developments Regarding Cuban Migration to U.S., https://dwkcommentaries.com/2017/01/15/other-current-developments-regarding-cuban-migrants-to-u-s/  
  01/20/17 U.S. and Cuba Sign Additional Agreements, https://dwkcommentaries.com/2017/01/20/u-s-and-cuba-sign-additional-agreements/  
  01/21/17 Criticism of U.S.-Cuba Law Enforcement Agreement, https://dwkcommentaries.com/2017/01/21/criticism-of-u-s-cuba-law-enforcement-agreement/  
    U.S. (Trump) & Cuba, 2016-2017  
  11/30/16 U.S. Reactions to Death of Fidel Castro  
  12/22/16 The Future of U.S.-Cuba Normalization Under the Trump Administration  
  01/02/17 More Reasons To Believe There Is a Dim Future for U.S.-Cuba Normalization, https://dwkcommentaries.com/2017/01/02/more-reasons-to-believe-there-is-a-dim-future-for-u-s-cuba-normalization/  
  01/17/17 U.S. and Cuba Continue To Implement Normalization, https://dwkcommentaries.com/2017/01/17/u-s-and-cuba-continue-to-implement-normalization-of-relations/  
  01/10/17 Three Experts Anticipate Little Change in U.S. Policies Regarding Cuba, https://dwkcommentaries.com/2017/01/10/three-experts-anticipate-little-change-in-u-s-policies-regarding-cuba/  
  01/10/17 Another Expert Believes Trump Administration Will Find Good U.S. Deals with Cuba  
  01/11/17 Washington Post Endorses Continued Normalization with Cuba, https://dwkcommentaries.com/2017/01/11/washington-post-endorses-continued-normalization-with-cuba/  
  01/12/17 Secretary of State Nominee Rex Tillerson Addresses U.S. Policies Regarding Cuba, https://dwkcommentaries.com/2017/01/12/secretary-of-state-nominee-rex-tillerson-addresses-u-s-policies-regarding-cuba/  
  01/23/17 Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State Nominee, Provides Written Responses Regarding Cuba to Senate Foreign Relations Committee  
  01/12/17 Representatives Emmer and Castor Introduce Bill To End Embargo of Cuba, https://dwkcommentaries.com/2017/01/12/representatives-emmer-and-castor-introduce-bill-to-end-embargo-of-cuba/  
  01/18/17 Lobbying the Incoming Trump Administration To Continue Normalization with Cuba, https://dwkcommentaries.com/2017/01/18/lobbying-the-incoming-trump-administration-to-continue-normalization-with-cuba/  
  01/26/17 President Raül Castro Says Cuba Can Work with Trump Administration  
  01/27/17 New U.S. Ambassador to U.N., NIkki Haley, May Present Challenges to  Supporters of U.S.-Cuba Normalization  
  01/28/17 Cuban Entrepreneurs Express Frustration and Confidence  
  01/29/17 Fraud in Cuba’s Foreign Medical Mission  
  02/17/17 Trump and Rubio Share Similar Views on Cuba  
  04/05/17 Uncertainty Over Future Cuba Policies of Trump Administration  
  04/06/17 Uncertainty About U.S. Policies Regarding Cuba Still Reigns Amid Competitive Lobbying  
  05/25/17 Rumors of Upcoming Trump Administration Rollback of U.S. Normalization of Relations with Cuba  
  05/27/17 New U.S. Senate Bills Embrace Normalization of Relations with Cuba  
  06/10/17  Trump Administration Reportedly Planning Reversal     of Some Aspects of U.S. Normalization of Relations with Cuba  
  06/10/17 Another Source Predicts Limited Changes to U.S. Policies Regarding Cuba  
  06/11/17 U.S. Senators Urge Prioritization of Obtaining Compensation for Cuban Expropriation of Property Owned by U.S. Nationals  
  06/12/17 Question About U.S. Standing To Assert Expropriation Claims Against Cuba  
  06/12/17 Response Regarding U.S. Expropriation Claims Against Cuba  
  06/14/17 U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Criticizes Certain Aspects of U.S.-Cuba Normalization  
  06/14/17 Senator and Congressman Urge Increased U.S. Agricultural Exports to Cuba  
  06/19/17 President Trump Announces Reversal of Some U.S.-Cuba Normalization Policies  
  06/24/17 More Details on Trump’s Announcement of Reversals of Some Cuba Normalization Policies  
  06/21/17 U.S. Reactions to Trump Reversal of Some U.S.-Cuba Normalization Policies  
  06/24/17 More Details on U.S. Reactions to Trump’s Announcement of Reversals of Some Cuba Normalization Policies  
  06/22/17 Cuban Reactions to Trump Reversal of Some U.S.-Cuba Normalization Policies  
  06/24/17 More Details on Cuban Reactions to Trump’s Announcement of Reversals of Some Cuba Normalization Policies  
  06/29/17 Mixed Signs on Impact on Cuba of Trump’s Policy Shift  
  06/23/17 This Blogger’s Reactions to Trump Reversal of Some U.S.-Cuba Normalization Policies  
  06/24/17 More Details on This Blogger’s Reactions to Trump’s Announcement of Reversals of Some Cuba Normalization Policies  
  06/26/17 President Trump’s New Policy on Cuba Could Substantially Reduce Remittances to Relatives in Cuba  
  06/27/17 Cuban Council of Churches Statement Regarding President Trump’s U.S.-Cuba Policy  
  06/28/17 Reducing Adverse Impact on Cuban Entrepreneurs of Trump’s Partial Ban on U.S. Person-to-Person Travel to Cuba  
  06/30/17 Analysis Shows Cuban Military Controls Only 4% of Cuba’s Gross Domestic Product  
  06/30/17 Cuban Council of Ministers Reviews Cuban Budget and Economy  
  07/04/17 Cuban Entrepreneurs Fear Implementation of Trump’s Ban on Individual Person-to-Person Travel to the Island  
  07/16/17 Open Letter to U.S. Congress About U.S. Freedom To Travel to Cuba  
  07/18/17 President Raúl Castro Affirms Importance of Cuba’s Private Sector  
  07/19/17 President Raúl Castro Discusses Cuba-U.S. Relations  
  07/19/17 Cuban Entrepreneurs Issue Policy Recommendations to Trump Administration  
  07/20/17 U.S. Continues To Suspend Part of Its Embargo of Cuba  
  07/22/17 No Metion of Cuba in U.S. State Department’s Latest Report on Terrorism  
  08/02/17 New Cuba Limits on Private Enterprise  
  08/03/17 Why Is the Cuban Government Trying To Slow Down the Private Sector?  
  08/07/17 Cuban Government Shuts Down Accounting Cooperative  
  08/08/17 Cuba Tries To Calm Private Sector  
  08/09/17 More Cuban Government Explanations About Actions Regarding Private Sector  
  08/13/17 Cuba’s Unchanged Status in U.S. State Department ‘s Annual Report on Human Trafficing  
  08/16/17 Exodus of Cuban Professionals?  
  08/17/17 U.S. State Department Unjustly Continues To Allege That Cuba’s Foreign Medical Missions Engage in Forced Labor  
  08/19/17 U.S. State Department’s Positive Assessment of Cuban Religious Freedom  
  08/20/17 Bleak Economic Prospects for Cuba  
  09/09/17 Cuban Criticism of Government’s Crackdown on Private Sector  
  09/21/17 President Trump Condemns Cuba at United Nations  
  09/24/17 U.S.-Cuba Relations Discussed in U.N. Proceedings  
  09/26/17 Opposition to U.S. Embargo Voiced at U.N. General Assembly  
  10/13/17 Intended Nomination of a Cuban-American as an Assistant Secretary of State  
  11/06/17 Senator Flake’s Courageous Defense of American Values and Democracy  
  11/08/17 New U.S. Regulations Regarding U.S. Travel to Cuba and Transactions with Certain Cuban Entities  
  11/09/17 Reactions to New U.S. Regulations About U.S. Travel to Cuba and Transctions with Cuban Entities  
  11/11/17 Additional Reactions to New U.S. Regulations Regarding Ciuba  
  12/18/17 More Russian Oil for Cuba  
  12/19/17 Trump’s Hostility Towards Cuba Creates Opportunities for Russia  
  11/22/17 Cuba’s Many Problems Prompt Speculation Galore  
  12/06/17 Another Indication of Cuba’s Economic Troubles  
  11/25/17 Is Cuba-North Korea Cooperation Good Or Bad for U.S.?  
  11/29/17 Cuba’s Elections, 2017-2018  
  12/01/17 Renewed Speculation That Raúl Castro Will Remain Cuba’s President  
  12/05/17 Another Perspective on Cuba’s Current Elections  
  12/12/17 U.S. and Cuba Hold Biannual Migration Talks  
  12/15/17 U.S. and Cuba Hold Discussions About Human Trafficking and Migration Fraud  
  12/15/17 More Details on December 12, 2107, U.S.-Cuba Meeting  
  12/21/17 Raúl Castro To Remain Cuba’s President for at Least Two More Months  
  12/23/17 USCIS Moves Field Office from Havana to Mexico City  
  12/25/17 Cuban Council of Churches Helps People with Disabilities  
  12/27/17 Senator Rubio Takes Credit for More Hostile U.S. Policies Regarding Cuba  
    Hurricane Irma & Cuba, 2017  
1045 09/10/17 Hurricane Irma Hits Cuba  
1046 09/12/17 Update on Hurricane Irma’s Impact on Cuba  
1046A 09/13/17 Cuba’s Crumbling Infranstructure Battered by Irma  
1046B 09/14/17 Imminent Collapse of Cuba’s Aging infrastructure?  
1048 09/14/17 U.S. Tells Americans Not to Go to Cuba While It Recovers from Hurricane Irma  
1057 09/27/17 Request Temporary Loosening of U.S. Embargo of Cuba  
1058 09/28/17 U.N. Human Rights Council’s Sparring Over Cuba  
    U.S. Diplomats Medical Problems in Cuba, 2017-18  
1029 08/10/17 U.S. and Cuba Have Diplomatic Dispute  
1030 08/10/17 Another State Department Briefing Regarding Cuban Diplomatic Dispute  
1036 08/23/17 Update on U.S.-Cuba Diplomatic Dispute Over Health  Conditions of U.S. Diplomats Stationed in Cuba  
1036A 08/24/17 At Least 16 U.S. Diplomats Who Had Served In Cuba Have Medical Problems  
1036B 08/25/17 Washington Post Editorial Blames Cuba for Americans Medical Problems in Cuba  
1036C 08/26/17 News About Cuba-Related Medical Problems from Canada and London  
1041 09/02/17 In August, New Cases of Injured U.S. Diplomats in Cuba  
1041A 09/13/17 Two More U.S. Diplomats Serving in Cuba Have Medical Problems  
1047 09/14/17 More Mystery Surrounding :Medical Attacks” on U.S. Diplomats in Cuba  
1050 09/16/17 GOP Senators Ask Administration To Take Actions Against Cuba Over U.S. Diplomats  
1051 09/18/17 U.S. Evaluating Whether To Close U.S. Embassy in Cuba  
1052 09/19/17 New Travel Warning for Americans Traveling to Cuba  
1053 09/20/17 Developments Regarding U.S. Diplomats in Cuba  
1059 09/30/17 Medical “Incidents” Affecting U.S. Diplomats in Cuba Prompts U.S.

To Close Embassy in Cuba and Urge Americans Not to Travel to Cuba

 
1059A 10/02/17 More Developmetns Affecting U.S. Diplomats in Cuba  
1061 10.04/17 U.S. Orders Cuban Diplomats To Leave U.S.  
1062 10/05/17 Cuba’s Reaction to U.S. Ordering Removal of Cuban Diplomats  
1063 10/05/17 More News Regarding Medically Afffected U.S. Diplomats in Cuba  
1064 10/06/17 Other Reactions to U.S. Ordering Removal of 15 Cuban Diplomats  
1065 10/07/17 U.S. Embassy in Cuba Issues “Hotel Restrictions” Security Message  
1071 10/14/17 Continued Official Uncertainty Over Cause of Medical Problems of U.S. Diplomats in Cuba  
1071A 10/17/17 President Trump’s Unreliable Opinion That Cuba Is Respnsible for “Attacks” on U.S. Diplomats in Cuba  
1071B 10/18/17 State Department Clarifies Trump Comment on “Attacks” on U.S. Diplomats in Cuba  
1075 10/20/17 Senator Leahy Criticizes Trump Administration’s Reaction to Alleged Sonic “Attacks” on U.S. Diplomats in Cuba  
1078 10/25/17 Cuba Report of its Investigation of Medical Problems of U.S. Diplomats in Cuba  
1078A 10/27/17 Additional Cuban Refutation of U.S. Claims Regarding Medical Conditions of U.S. Diplomats in Havana  
1081 10/31/17 Cuba Calling Alleged Sonic Attacks on U.S. Diplomats “the Sonico Maine”  
1081A 11/01/17 Granma Journalist Sees Alleged Sonic Attacks As Latest Example of U.S. Creating Pretext for Hostile Actions  
1081B 11/14/17 International Conference of Medical Experts Rejects U.S. Claim of Acoustic Attacks  
1083 11/03/17 Cuba Foreign Minister Accuses U.S. of “Lying” About U.S. Diplomats in Havana  
1101 12/06/17 Discovery of Brain Abnormalities in U.S. Diplomats in Havana with Medical Problems  
1102 12/08/17 Cuban Scientists’ Assessment of Medical Problems of U.S. Diplomats  
1102A 12/09/17 State Department’s Update on Health Problems of U.S. Diplomats  
1114 01/04/18 Teens Hear Strange High-Pitched Sound at Havana Airport  
1116 01/06/18 More Details on Medical Problems of Canadian Diplomats in Cuba  
1117 01/07/18 No Evidence of Sonic Attacks on U.S. Diplomats in Cuba  
1118 01/10/18 Additional Controversy Over What Happened to U.S. Diplomats in Cuba  
1119 01/10/18 U.S. Senate Hearing on Medical Problems of U.S. Diplomats in Cuba  
1119A 01/12/18 Cuban Journalist Claims Inconsistenceis in Allegations of Cuban Causing Medical Problems in U.S. Diplomats in Cuba  
1119B 01/16/18 Published: Witness es Direct Testimony at Senate Hearing  
1119C 01/17/18 Senator Rubio Continues Attacks on Normalization with Cuba  
1120 01/11/18 State Department’s New Travel Advisory System on Cuba and Other Countries  
1130 01/30/18 Perplexing Status of U.S. Travel to Cuba  
1140 02/16/18 Medical Report on U.S. Diplomats Health Problems Occurring in Cuba  
1152 03/04/18 Possible Solution to Mystery of “Sonic Attacks” on U.S. Diplomats in Cuba  
1152A 03/05/18 Approval of University of Michigan Research on Alleged “Sonic Weapons” in Cuba  
1152B 03/30/18 U.S. Still Does Not Know Cause of “Sonic Attacks” on U.S. Diplomats in Cuba  
1177 04/27/18 Cuba’s Latest Commentary on “Alleged” Health Incidents Affecting U.S. Diplomats in Cuba  
1199 05/30/18 Cuban Scientist Calls for U.S., Canada and Cuba Joint Investigation of Medical Problems of U.S. and Canadian Diplomats in Cuba  
1204 06/05/18 U.S. Establishes Task Force To Coordinate Response to Health Problems of U.S. Diplomats in Cuba and China  
1204A 06/06/18 More U.S. Diplomats Report Illness in China  
1204B 06/07/18 China Pledges to Investigate Sonic Attacks on U.S. Diplomats  
1204C 06/08/18 U.S. Broadens Health Alert to All Americans in China  
1204D 06/08/18 Two More American Diplomatic Personnel Evacuated from Cuba  
1211 06/11/18 Cuba Still Baffled by Illness of U.S. Diplomats  
1221 06/21/18 Recent Developments Regarding U.S. Diplomats Sickened in Cuba  
1221A 06/29/18 Another U.S. Diplomat Sickened in Cuba  
1221B 06/29/18 Cuba Repeats Denial of “Attacks” on U.S. Diplomats  
1230 06/30/18 More U.S. Diplomats with Medical Problems in China  
1230A 07/03/18 Another U.S. Diplomat from Beijing Embassy Evacuated  
1245 07/25/18 State Department Officials Visit Cuba To Discuss Diplomats’ Health  
1273 08/31/18 State Department’s Accountability Review Board Report  
1277 09/07/18 U.S. House Hearing on U.S. Policy Toward Cuba  
1227A 09/08/18 Representative Engel Questions State Department’s Response to Medical Problems of U.S. Diplomats in Cuba  
1278 09/09/18 Continuing Controversy Over Medical Problems of U.S. Diplomats in Cuba  
1279 09/12/18 Russia Is Identified as Suspect of Harming U.S. Diplomats in Cuba  
1279A 09/12/18 Cuba Responds to NBCNews Report of Russian Involvement in Medical Problems of U.S. Diplomats  
1280 09/14/18 U.S. and Cuba Meet About Medical Problems of U.S. Diplomats in Cuba  
  1289 10/03/18 Canadian Government Also Baffled by Medical Problems of Its Diplomats in Cuba  
1289A 11/29/18 Another Ill Canadian Diplomat in Cuba  
1307 11/14/18 New Yorker Report on Medical Problems of U.S. Diplomats in Cuba  
    U.S.’ Cuba Internet Task Force, 2018  
1127 01/25/18 State Department Creates Cuba Internet Task Force and Suspends Enforcement of Statutory Liability for Trafficking in Certain Cuban Expropriated Property  
1132 02/01/18 Cuba Protests U.S.’ Cuba Internet Task Force  
1132A 02/04/18 Former Cuban Prisoner Criticizes U.S.’ Cuba Internet Task Force  
1136 02/08/18 U.S.’ Cuba Internet Task Force Holds Inaugural Meeting  
1137 02/09/18 Objections to U.S.’ Cuba Internet Task Force  
1137A 02/09/18 Comment to Cuba Internet Task Force  
1137B 11/29/18 U.S.’ Cuba Internet Task Force To Hold Second Meeting  
    U.S. (Trump) & Cuba, 2018  
113 01/03/18 Professor LeoGrande’s Comments on the Strengthening Cuba-Russia Relationship  
1119C 01/17/18 Senator Rubio continues Attacks on Normalization with Cuba  
1121 01/12/18 Cuba and European Union Strengthen Their Relationship  
1122 01/16/18 Is Cuba Concealing Bad Economic Data?  
1123 01/18/18 Cuba and U.S. Continue to Hold bilateral Meetings on Various Issues  
1123A 01/20/18 Reuters Reports on U.S.-Cuba Talks About Law Enforcement  
1135 02/07/18 Secretary Tillerson’s Provocative Comments About Latin America  
1135A 02/10/18 More Criticism of Tillerson’s Comments About the Monroe Doctrine  
1139 02/15/18 U.S. and Cuba Continue To Confer Over Common Concerns  
1148 02/24/18 Congressional Delegation Visits Cuba  
1151 03/03/18 Developments in U.S.-Cuba Diplomatic Relations  
1151A 03/06/18 More Reactions to U.S. Low Staff at Havana Embassy  
1155 03/18/18 U.S. and Cuba Exchange Accusations at U.N. Human Rights Council  
1156 03/19/18 Upcoming Cuba Issues for the Trump Administration  
1156A 04/06/18 Trump Not Expected To Meet Castro at Summit of the Americas  
1167 04/11/18 Developments Regarding the Summit of the Americas  
1170 04/18/18 U.S.-Cuba Skirmishes at the Summit of the Americas  
1158 03/26/18 Signs of Possible Increased U.S. Hostility Towards Cuba  
1168 04/12/18 U.S. and Cuba Continue To Cooperate on Agriculture  
1168A 04/13/18 Identification of U.S. and Cuba Agriculture Agreements  
1171 04/19/18 The Inauguration of Cuba’s New President, Miguel Díaz-Canel  
1174 04/23/18  U.S. Reactions to the New President of Cuba  
1179 05/08/18 Argument Between Wall Street Journal and Cuba Ambassador to U.S.  
1179A 05/10/18 Comments on Cuban Ambasssador vs. W.S.J.  
1180 05/09/18 More Hostile Words About Cuba by U.S. Vice President Pence and U.S. Ambassador to Organization of American States  
1180A 05/10/18 More General Critique of Mike Pence  
1191 05/21/18 President Trump’s Message to the Cuban People  
1196 05/27/18 Should U.S. Indict Raúl Castro for 1996 Downing of Cuban-American Planes?  
1196A 07/13/18 Another Congressional Request for Indictment of Raúl Castro  
1229 06/29/18 Miami-Area Cuban-Americans Press for U.S. Indictment of Raúl Castro  
1200 06/01/18 U.S. and Cuba Make Permanent the Exchange of Postal Mail  
1202 06/04/18 U.S. Statement About Cuba at Organization of American States General Assembly  
1203 06/05/18 U.S. Senator Jeff Flake and Former Google Executive Meet with Cuba President Diaz-Canel  
1205 06/06/18 More Unkind Words About Cuba from Vice President Pence  
1207 06/09/18 Conferences About Continued U.S.-Cuba Cooperation on Various Issues  
1216 06/15/18 Recent U.S.-Cuba Developments  
1224 06/24/18 U.S. Programs Purportedly Supporting Democracy and Human Rights In Cuba  
1227 06/27/18 U.S. Asks Cuba to Release Twp “Prisoners of Conscience”  
1227A 06/28/18 Washington Post Demands Release of Two Cuban “Prisoners of Concscience”  
1232 07/02/18 Senate Passes Bill To Expand Agricultural Exports to Cuba  
1237 07/12/18 U.S. and Cuba Continue To Hold Dialogues on Common Issues  
1253 08/02/18 Good News: Increasing U.S. Travel to Cuba  
1268 08/24/18 U.S. State Department Softens Travel Advisory for Cuba  
1286 09/29/18 Small Chance of Liberalized U.S. Rules for Agriccultural Exports to Cuba  
    1291 10/07/18 U.S. Protests Cuban Detention of Democratic Activist  
     1291A 10/16/18 Magdariaga Released from Cuba Prison  
  1293 10/17/18 U.S. at U.N. Condemns Cuba’s Imprisonment of Political Opponents  
   1299 10/25/18 Increasing U.S.-Cuba Tension  
   1304 11/03/18 U.S. National Security Advisor Announces New U.S. Hostility Towards Cuba  
  1305 11/04/18 Forces Promoting U.S. Hostility Towards Cuba  
1309 11/16/18 More Cuban Businesses Forbiddent to U.S. Visitors  
1311 11/19/18 Disruption in Cuban Medical Mission to Brazil  
1329 12/26/18 Cuba Tightens Censorship of the Arts  
    Cuba’s New Constitution, 2018-19  
1239 07/15/18 New Cuba Constitution Draft Recognizes Private Property  
1239A 07/26/18 Washington Post Condemns Draft of New Cuba Constitution  
1243 07/23/18 Cuba’s National Assembly Approves Draft Constitution  
1330 12/28/18 Cuba Legislature Approves New Draft of New Cuba constitution  
1349 02/14/19  Cuba Arrests Opponents of Proposed New Constitution  
1352 02/26/19  Cuban Citizens Approve New Constitution  
1354 03/01/19 U.S. and Cuba Exchange Insults Over Cuba’s Constitutional Reforms  
1355 03/02/19 Washington Post Criticizes New Cuban Constitution  
     U.S. Diplomats Medical Problems in Cuba, 2019  
1332 01/05/19  Crickets Caused Sounds Heard by U.S. Diplomats in Cuba  
1343 01/30/19  Canada Reducing Cuba Diplomatic Staffing  
1348 02/10/19  Injured U.S. and Canadian Diplomats  in Cuba: New Developments  
1354 03/01/19  U.S. and Cuba Exchange Insults Over Cuba’s Constitutional Reforms  
1355 03/02/19  Washington Post Criticizes New Cuban Constitution  
1398 05/20/19 Still Uncertainty Over What Happened to U.S. Diplomats in Cuba  
1401 06/01/19  Did U.S. Ineptly Investigate the Medical Problems of Some U.S. Diiplomats in Cuba  
1428 08/13/19 Continued Disagreement Over What Happened to U.S. Diplomats in Cuba  
1456 09/20/19 Ccanadian Analysis of Medical Problems of Diplomats in Cuba  
     U.S. Parole Program for Cuban Medical     Professionals, 2019  
1335 01/11/19 Senators Menendez and Rubio Call for Restoring U.S. Parole Program for Cuban Doctors  
1335A 01/12/19  Cuba Attacks the Proposed [Menendez-Rubio] Resolution  
1429 08/14/19 New U.S. Government Hostility Towards Cuba Medical Mission Program  
1446 09/04/19 U.S. Unjustified Campaign Against Cuba’s Foreign Medical Missions  
1462 09/30/19 More U.S. Actions Against Cuba  
1462A 10/01/19 Yet Another U.S. Action Against Cuba’s Medical Mission Program  
1462B 10/01/19 U.S. Denial of Visa to Cuban Health Minister  
                Cuba, Venezuela & U.S., 2019  
1337 01/18/19 President Trump Considering Another Hostile Action Against Cuba  
1338 01/25/19  Secretary of State Pompeo Criticizes Cuba for Supporting Venezuela’s Maduro  
1339 01/25/19  Wall Street Journal Supports Hostility Towards Cuba’s Links with Venezuela  
1341 01/27/19  U.S. Urges U.N. Security Council To Reject Venezuela’s Maduro and Embrace Gualdó  
1345 01/31/19   Wall Street Journal: U.S. Asserting New Plan To Re-Shape Latin America  
1359 03/12/19   Venezuela Power Outage Caused New Crisis  
1362 03/15/19   Cuba Abandons Rhetorical Restraint in Comments on U.S.  
1363 03/20/19   Cuba Doctors in Venezuela Provide Political Support to Maduro: New York   Times  
1368 04/02/19   John Bolton and New Threats Against Cuba  
1372 04/05/19   New U.S. Sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela  
1374 04/17/19 State Department Announcement of New Sanctions Against Cuba  
1376 04/19/19 National Security Advisor Bolton Announces New Sanctions Against Cuba  
1378 04/21/19   Cuba Ractions to New U.S. Anti-Cuba Measures  
1379 04/22/19   European and Other Countries Reactions to New U.S. Anti-Cuba Policies  
1380 04/23/19   U.S. Reactions to New U.S. Anti-Cuba Policies  
1386 05/02/19   Critique of John Bolton’s Consistent Advocacy of Using Aggressive Force  
1387 05/03/19  Cuba Foreign Minister Denounces U.S. Policies  
1388 05/04/19 Cuba Reveals Purported U.S. TOP SECRET Plan for Overthrow of Venezuelan    Government  
1389 05/06/19  U.S. Reactions to Failure of Juan Guiadó’s Attempt To Takeover Venezuelan Government  
1390 05/08/19  Vice President Pence Addresses Disruption and Transformation in the Americas  
1392 05/10/19   President Trump’s Scepticism About John Bolton’s Advice  
1442 08/31/19 Cuba Helped Venezuela Suppress Military Dissent  
            U.S. Cuba Restricted List, 2019  
1357 03/05/19  U.S. Authorizes U.S. Litigation Against Entities on  Cuba Restricted List  
1360 03/13/19  U.S. Modifies Its Cuba Restricted List  
     Helms-Burton Act Title III Authorization, 2019  
1342 01/30/19 Update on Trump Administration’s Threat To Allow U.S. Litigation Over Cuba’s Expropriated Property  
1351 02/19/19  Professor LeoGrande’s Argument About U.S. Litigation Over Cuba Expropriated Property  
1370 04/04/19  Another Two Weeks Suspension of Title III of the   Helms-Burton Act  
1375 04/18/19 Additional State Department Briefing on Helms-Burton Changes  
                             Other, 2019  
1333 01/07/19 Announcement of Cuba’s “Pillars of Management” and Strategy for 2019  
1334 01/08/19 Raúl Castro’s Celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution’s Triumph  
1336 01/16/19 The Economist Ranks Cuba as the Worst Democracy in Latin America  
1340 01/26/19 U.S. Considering Re-Designating Cuba as a “State Sponsor of Terrorism”  
1344 01/31/19  Proposed Resolution of U.S.-Cuba  Issues  
1358 03/10/19 Cuba’s Success and Problems with Aging, Declining Population  
1361 03/14/19  Latest U.S. Report on Cuban Human Rights  
1367 03/28/19  Economist Criticizes Cuban Economy  
1377 04/20/19  Cuba’s Current Dire Economic Situation  
1381 04/24/19  Important Updated Source of News About Cuba  
1393 05/11/19  Cuba Facing Shortages of Basic Foodstuffs  
1394 05/13/19  Cuba’s Negative Population Trends Continue  
1396 05/16/19  U.S. Reiterates Its Negative Assessment of Cuba  
1402 06/14/19 Proposed U.N. Human Rights Council’s Resolution on Cuban Human Rights  
1406 06/19/19 Cuba’s Alleged Expatriation of Dissidents  
1408 06/22/19 State Department Unustly Downgrades Cuba in Annual Reprot on Human Trafficking  
1408A 06/22/19 Cuba Rejects U.S. Government’s Report on Human trafficking in Cuba  
1410 07/02/19 U.S. Comments About Cuba at the Organization of American States (OAS)  
1411 07/03/19 U.S. Cuba Internet Task Force’s Final Report  
1413 07/05/19 Young Cuban Discusses the Many Problems of His Country  
1419 07/18/19 U.S. State Department Unfairly Criticizes Cuban Religious Freedom  
1447 09/06/19 Examination of the Actions of EchoCuba (U.S. Nonprofit)  
1427 08/13/19 Congressional Bipartisan Bills for Reversal of U.S. Policies Regarding Cuba  
1431 08/17/19 Cuba Suffering from Continued U.S. Hostility  
1433 08/21/19 Congressmen Reiterate Call for Re-Designation of Cuba as “State Sponsor of Terrorism”  
1434 08/22/19 Decline of U.S. Visitors to Cuba  
1435 08/23/19 U.S.-Cuba Conflict Over Cuban Journalist  
1435A 09/14/19 More Complaints About Imprionment of Cuban Journalist  
1467 10/07/19 Cuban Independent Media Reject Government’s Attacks on Press Freedom  
1441 08/30/19 Additional Cuban Political Prisoners Named by Amnesty International  
1449 09/08/19 U.S. Reduces Permissible Remittances to Cuba  
1450 09/09/19 Cuba Imposes New Restrictions on Private Sector  
1451 09/12/19 Cuba and European Union Draw Closer  
1452 09/13/19 Implications for Cuba of Dismissal/Resignation of John Bolton as National Security Advisor  
1453 09/14/19 Cuba Struggling with Engergy Shortages  
1457 09/21/19 U.S. Expels Cuban Diplomats  
1458 09/22/19 Cuba’s Increasing Cooperation with Russia  
1462 09/30/19 More U.S. Actions Against Cuba  
1462A 10/01/19 Yet Another U.S. Action Against Cuba’s Medical Mission Program  
1462B 10/01/19 U.S. Denial of Visa to Cuban Health Minister  
1462C 12/03/19 U.S. Sanctions Six More Vessels Carrying Venezuelan Oil for Cuba  
1467 10/07/19 Cuban Independent Media Reject Government’s Attacks on Press Freedom  
1474 10/26/19 U.S. Reduces Airline Flights to Cuba  
1479 11/05/19 No Mention of Cuba in New U.S. Report on Terrorism  
1481 11/08/19 U.N. General Assembly Again Condemns U.S. Embargo of Cuba  
1485 11/17/19 U.S. Denies Visas to Cuban Diplomats  
1486 11/18/19 Secretary Pompeo Reiterates U.S. Hostility Towards Cuba  
1473 10/23/19 New State Department Fact Sheet on U.S.-Cuba Relations  
1487 11/20/19 Secretary Pompeo: Impefect Christian Leader  
1490 11/23/19 State Department’s New U.S.-Cuba Relations Fact Sheet  
1497 11/30/19 Another Theory for Cause of Medical Problems of U.S. Diplomats in Cuba  
1499 12/13/19 Cuba’s Aging and Declining Population  
1502 12/18/19 Dwindling Hope in Cuba  
       Cuba’s Detention/Prosecution of Ferrer  
1470 10/19/19 U.S. Imposes New Sanctions on Cuba and Denounces Cuba’s Detention of Dissident  
1470A 10/21/19 Cuban Court Denies Habeas Corpus for Ferrer  
1470B 10/26/19 Ferrer’s Family Released from Detention  
1470C 10/31/19 More Pressure for Release of Ferrer  
1470D 11/02/19 Cuban Attorneys Say Cuban Regime Frequently Forcibly Disappears Its Citizens  
1470E 11/02/19 No Cuban Government Report on Status of Ferrer  
1470F 11/09/19 Washington Post Editorial Calls for Cuba To Release Ferrer  
1470G 11/11/09 Cuba Allegedly Using Venezuelan Torture Technique on Ferrer  
1483 11/13/19 Amnesty International Reiterates Demand for Release of Ferrer  
1488 11/21/19 Cuba Accuses U.S. of Using Ferrer Case To Try to Discredit Cuba  
1489 11/22/19 U.S. Responds to Cuba’s About Allegations About U.S. of José Faniel Ferrer  
1493 11/26/19 Cuba Tells European Union That Ferrer Is Not a Political Detainee  
1493A 11/28/19 Update on Ferrer Staus  
1493B 02/01/20 Current Status of José Daniel Ferrer  
1549 02/27/20 Secretary Pompeo Demands Release of Cuban Dissident  
1550 02/28/20 José Daniel Ferrer Tried for Common Crime in Cuba  
1561 03/19/20 Cuba and U.S. Debate Cuba’s Treatment of José Daniel Ferrer  
1561A 03/27/20 Ferrer Visited in Prison by Family  
1573 04/04/20 Ferrer Sentenced to Prison and Then Released to House Arrest  
                                  Other, 2020  
1516 01/03/20 Another U.S. Designation of Cubans Inelligible To Enter U.S.  
1521 01/13/20 President Trump Proclaims His “Success” on Cuba  
1528 01/22/20 Former Cuban Judge Criticizes Cuban Legal System  
1533 02/03/20 Cuba’s Low Birth Rate, Increasing Emigration and Declining Population  
1534 02/09/20 U.S. State Department’s Recent Actions on U.S. Policies Regarding Cuba  
1535 02/12/20 U.S. Litigation Over Cuba’s Medical Mission Program  
1536 02/13/20 Cuba Response to U.S. Campaign Against Cuba’s Medical Mission  
1553 03/06/20 Bernie Sanders’ Early 2014 Cuban Prison Meeting with U.S. Prisoner  
1553A 03/10/20 Bernie Sanders Denies 2014 Comment to Alan Gross  
1556 03/14/20 U.S. State Department Reiterates Criticism of Cuba’s Human Rights  
1559 03/16/20 Cuba Presses Charges Against Dissident Artist  
1559A 03/18/20 Protesst Against Cuba’s Charges Against Alcántara  
1560 03/17/20 U.S. Positive Comments About Cuban Human Rights  
1562 03/20/20 Criticism of Cuba’s Persecution of Human Rights Activists and Journalists  
1570 03/30/20 Cuba and U.S. Council of Churches Call for End of U.S. Embargo  
1580 04/20/20 U.S. State Department Announces Funding Opportuities for Cuba Proposals  
1581 04/21/20 Comments on Cuba by the U.S. Commander of the U.S. Southern Command