Brookings Report Text about Cuba Via Jane Franklin

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Brookings report text about Cuba
Posted by: "Jane Franklin" [e-mail]
Tue Nov 25, 2008 10:22 am (PST)

Thanks to John McAuliff for sending section on Cuba from the Brookings
Institution report. I could not get to the full text via the link John
provides, but this one should work if you need it. However, John's text
below provides the recommendations for changes in U.S. policy toward Cuba.

http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2008/1124_latin_america_partnership.aspx

Jane Franklin
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jbfranklins

From: John McAuliff <[e-mail]>
To: Recipient list suppressed:;
Subject: Brookings report text
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:52:18 -0500

Following is the list of recommendations from
the remarkable Report of the Partnership for the

Americas Commission of the Brookings Institution entitled
"Rethinking U.S.–Latin American Relations

A Hemispheric Partnership for a Turbulent World"

http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2008/~/media/Files/rc/reports/2008/1124_latin_america_partnership/1124_latin_america_partnership.pdf
full text, Cuba section pp 28-30

The Commission, half from the US and half from Latin America and the
Caribbean, is cochaired by

Ernesto Zedillo, Former President of Mexico

Thomas R. Pickering, Former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political
Affairs

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The last section addresses U.S. relations with Cuba. Though this
issue is of a smaller order of magnitude than the other four areas,
it is addressed here because Cuba has long been a subject of intense
interest in U.S. foreign policy and a stumbling block for U.S.
relations with other countries in the hemisphere.

The report puts forward these recommendations for the next U.S.
administration and Congress:

U.S.–Cuban relations:

* Lift all restrictions on travel to Cuba by Americans.

* Repeal all aspects of the “communications embargo” (radio, TV,
Internet) and readjust regulations governing trade in
low-technology communications equipment.

* Remove caps and targeting restrictions on remittances.

* Take Cuba off the State Department’s State Sponsors of Terrorism
List.

* Promote knowledge exchange and reconciliation by permitting federal
funding of cultural, academic, and sports exchanges.

* Provide assistance to the Cuban people in recovering from natural
and human-made disasters.

* Encourage enhanced official contact and cooperation between U.S.
and Cuban diplomats and governments.

* End opposition to the reengagement of the international community
with Cuba in regional and global economic and political
organizations.

* Work with the members of the European Union and other countries to
create a multilateral fund for civil society that will train
potential entrepreneurs in management and innovation.

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John McAuliff

Executive Director

Fund for Reconciliation and Development

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