Using and Losing Leverage in U.S.-Cuban Relations

For the first time since 1960s, the United States has leverage over Cuba. Now President Obama is cleverly playing off the Republic congressional critics of his policy to encourage the Cuban regime to change if it really wants to embargo lifted.

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Así cambiará el continente por el histórico encuentro en La Habana

Senadores demócratas y republicanos, miembros del Estado Mayor Conjunto, representantes de la Oficina de Derechos Humanos y varios delegados de los Departamentos de Comercio, del Tesoro y del Estado. Nada menos que 19 personalidades del gobierno y de la política de Estados Unidos llegaron este viernes a participar en la ceremonia oficial de apertura de la embajada de ese país en La Habana, que estuvo cerrada durante más de 54 años tras la ruptura de las relaciones diplomáticas entre Washington y La Habana.

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Interrogantes del viaje de Daniel Scioli a Cuba

El candidato único del oficialismo para las elecciones presidenciales en la Argentina, Daniel Scioli, realizó el pasado 22 de julio una breve pero significativa visita a Cuba, donde se reunió con Raúl Castro. ¿De qué hablaron?

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US formally drops Cuba from terrorism ‘blacklist’

Taking Cuba off the list has two main consequences, diplomatic and economic, said Christopher Sabatini, a Columbia University professor who specializes in Cuba studies. “This is something that for a long time sort of stuck in the craw of the Cubans, who really resented being lumped together with countries like Iran and Syria,” he said.

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Doing business in Cuba–don’t forget opportunity costs

The new, the exotic, the previously forbidden fruit may appear to be the most tantalizing, but objective criteria should form the realist metric on which to measure all business decisions. The incremental and marginal changes in trade with Cuba are just that—incremental and marginal.

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Cuba: It’s all about the regs

The effectiveness and fate of President Barack Obama’s December 17, 2014, executive actions to alter elements of the U.S. embargo on Cuba will ultimately depend on how the regulations are written and interpreted in the Treasury and Commerce departments. Let’s hope the regulators in those departments follow the spirit of the President’s actions.

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