Brookings Institution

Venezuela-Cuba relationship

November 5, 2010

Carlos Blanco, Former Minister for the Reform of the State in Venezuela, and Paul Hare, Former British Ambassador to Cuba, have written a policy brief for the Brookings Institution on “the origins of the Cuba-Venezuela relationship, the deepening of cooperation and interaction, and whether the aspirations of Hugo Chavez and the Castro brothers are compatible in the [...]

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Lifting the communications embargo

July 15, 2010

Christopher Sabatini, senior director of policy at the Americas Society/Council of the Americas and editor in chief of Americas Quarterly, argues for lifting the communications embargo on Cuba in the July/August 2010 issue of Foreign Policy magazine: This leaves Washington in a quandary. Last week’s release of the 52 prisoners — independent journalists and human [...]

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U.S.-Cuba environmental cooperation

June 10, 2010

In early May, the Brookings Institution published a study on U.S.-Cuba environmental cooperation when dealing with the potential risks of oil exploration in shared ocean waters: As Cuba continues to develop its deepwater oil and natural gas reserves, the consequence to the United States of a similar mishap occurring in Cuban waters moves from the [...]

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