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Jimmy Carter's Havana visit represents the accelerated privatization" of U.S. Cuba policy, prompted by a belief that Washington's official stance remains paralyzed by Florida electoral calculations. Those calculations mean that, whatever the outcome of Carter's visit, President Bush is expected to announce a tightening up of the four-decade-old U.S. embargo next Monday. There's scant support for continued sanctions in the U.S. foreign policy, defense, intelligence or business establishment, much less among Washington's allies in Latin America - or even among Cuba's small dissident community. But no matter how much it's questioned...
...Cuban economy has struggled since the collapse of its Soviet patron, and the recent coup attempt on Castro's Venezuelan ally President Hugo Chavez - in which Havana's lifeline to cheap oil was briefly cut - was a reminder of Cuba's continued vulnerability. The growing presence of European, Canadian and Latin American investors and the government's see-sawing policy toward small Cuban entrepreneurs signals the inevitability of capitalist reforms...
...Politically, too, the pressure is on. Longtime Latin American ally Mexico recently deserted Cuba to support a U.N. condemnation of Havana's repressive human rights record. Even more significant may have been an unprecedented domestic challenge to the government over the past week, in the form of the Varela initiative. The organizers have operated within their rights defined by the Cuban constitution and collected 11,000 signatures on a petition to the legislature calling for a referendum on freedom of speech, amnesty for political prisoners, the creation of private businesses and electoral reforms. Cuban law now requires that the National...
...official dinners, and the Bush Administration's fear is that every time Carter breaks bread with Castro, it will further legitimize his dictatorial regime in the eyes of the world community. Carter is also scheduled to deliver a 20-minute televised speech in Spanish from the University of Havana's main auditorium that is already being interpreted in Cuba as an anti-Bush gesture. Most troubling of all to the State Department is Carter's scheduled tour of the Biotech Institute (Centro de Ingenieria y Biotecnologia). They worry that Carter will be duped into believing that all Cuba manufactures...
Third, Coyula is a distinguished architect and urbanist. His life’s work has been the preservation and restoration of Havana, a UNESCO world heritage city. He has struggled against great odds to rescue and restore buildings and entire neighborhoods. He won international acclaim for his work as director of Havana’s Grupo para el Desarrollo Integral de la Capital (GDIC), the equivalent of our National Capital Planning Commission. His many papers and articles have been widely published. His most recent publication in this country is the 1997 book Havana: Two Faces of the Antillean Metropolis...