Cuba's new resolve economic reform and its implications for U.S. Policy
Research Series: 21st Century Cuba
The Center for Democracy in the Americas receives support from the Ford Foundation for research and assessment of Cuba’s efforts to update its system for the long-term. We gather and analyze data on these issues and publish reports on their implications for use by U.S. policy makers, foreign policy experts, the news media, and the general public. In our 21st Century Cuba series, we examine:
Cuba’s efforts to develop its offshore oil resources.
Cuba’s efforts to update its economic system.
Cuba’s efforts to broaden participation in government and improve the status of marginalized populations: women, Afro-Cubans, and others.
Cuba’s solidarity with other nations via its medical brigades abroad and free medical education for foreign students in Cuba.
Our first report, “As Cuba Plans to Drill, U.S. Policy Puts Our National Interest at Risk,” documented Cuba’s plans with its foreign partners to extract oil from its offshore fields in the Gulf of Mexico, and how the limits imposed by the embargo harm U.S. environmental, economic, and foreign policy interests. It was released February 24, 2011. We plan to publish the remaining reports in our series later this year and in early 2012.
