Since its historic announcement on 17 December 2014, Washington has taken several steps designed to ease the effects of the economic siege that still weighs heavily on Cuba. But the road remains long. Many obstacles are still to be overcome in the negotiation process between Cuba and the US.
The White House, ‘Fact Sheet: Charting a New Course on Cuba’, 17 December 2014. Available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/17/fact-sheet-charting-new-course-cuba. (Accessed 15 February 2015).
Ibid.
Telephone interview, 15 February 2015.
The White House, ‘Fact Sheet: Charting a New Course on Cuba’.
The Associated Press, ‘EEUU permitirá importar algunos productos de Cuba’, 13 February 2015.
The White House, ‘Fact Sheet: Charting a New Course on Cuba’.
Ibid.
Agence France Presse, ‘Estados Unidos y Cuba reanudarán diálogo el 27 de febrero en Washington’, 17 February 2015.
Jim Avila and Meghan Keneally, ‘President Asks Congress to Lift the Embargo against Cuba’, ABC News , 20 January 2015. Available at http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-congress-lift-embargo-cuba-sources/story?id=28358404 (Accessed 15 February 2015).
Cristina Escobar, ‘La relación de Cuba y Estados Unidos: una entrevista a Josefina Vidal’, Cuba Hoy , 2 February 2015. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4IhP2pUOCg (Accessed 15 February 2015).
US Department of State, ‘State Sponsors of Terrorism’, April 2014. Available at http://www.state.gov/j/ct/list/c14151.htm (Accessed 9 May 2014).
Communauté des Etats latino-américains et caribéens, ‘Déclaration de la CELAC à propos de l'inclusion de Cuba dans la liste des Etats promoteurs du terrorisme’, 7 May 2014. Available at http://www.granma.cu/idiomas/frances/notre-amerique/8mayo-celac.html (Accessed 9 May 2014).
Cuban Adjustment Act, November 1966.
Salim Lamrani, ‘The Dissidents’, in Salim Lamrani (ed.), Cuba, the Media and the Challenge of Impartiality (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2015).
Federal Bureau of Investigation, ‘“Suspected Bombing of Cubana Airlines DC-8 Near Barbados, West Indies, October 6, 1976”, 7 October 1976’, in Luis Posada Carriles: The Declassified Record (The National Security Archive, George Washington University). Available at http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB153/19761008.pdf (Accessed 8 April 2015).
Ibid.
Ann Louise Bardach and Larry Rohter, ‘Key Cuba Foe Claims Exiles' Backing’, New York Times , 12 July 1998.