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President Barack Obama’s New Cuba Policy is a big win for the repressive Communist regime in Cuba and for the Castro brothers who still rule the island. The regime, faced with the possible loss of its Venezuelan financial lifeline, will receive, under the President’s policy, a major U.S. diplomatic and economic boost.
This without having to take any credible steps to democratize the country or to give up its outrageous demands, including the return of the U.S. Naval Base of Guantanamo and compensation for the alleged multibillion dollar losses incurred by Cuba as a result of the U.S. embargo.
This is a one-sided policy, which circumvents the 1996 LIBERTAD Act and other statutes, ignores the views and sacrifices of the Cuban dissident movement, puts U.S. security at risk, and further erodes America’s reputation as a champion of human rights and freedom.
• NORMALIZING U.S. RELATIONS WITH CUBA, under current conditions, will embolden the Castro regime to continue intensifying repression. Several dozen political prisoners were recently released, but 8,889 peaceful dissidents were arrested and rearrested in 2014—close to 40% more than in 2013.
• REMOVING CUBA FROM THE LIST OF TERRORIST STATES will reward the Castro regime for smuggling 240 tons of heavy weapons to North Korea, training and equipping Venezuela’s repressive forces, offering Russia’s Putin an espionage listening post in Cuba, and harboring dozens of fugitive terrorists and criminals, including one of the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted Terrorists, Assata Shakur. Cuba is the only “state-sponsored of terrorism” nation to openly harbor a fugitive on the most-wanted terrorist list.
• INCREASING U.S. TRAVEL TO CUBA UNDER THE CASTRO-MANIPULATED PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE PROGRAM will benefit the military, which owns all of Cuba’s hotels and tourist infrastructure.
• SHIPPING TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY AND HARDWARE TO CUBA, without assurances of affordable public internet access and an end to censorship, will help tighten the government’s control of information available to Cubans.
• OPENING ACCOUNTS IN CASH-STRAPPED CUBAN GOVERNMENT BANKS will expose U.S. capital to the same politicized financial institutions that froze $1 billion of foreign deposits in 2009.
• GRANTING EXPORT CREDITS TO THE CASTRO REGIME, which has reneged on its international debts and is now virtually insolvent, will pose inordinate risks to U.S. taxpayers, who ultimately will shoulder any losses.
• LIFTING THE U.S. EMBARGO, as requested by the President to Congress, will channel the dollars of American tourists and investors to Cuban government enterprises, which control the economy, assign Cuban workers to foreign companies, and keep 92 cents of each dollar of every worker’s salary.
We urge Congress to oppose unilateral concessions that bail out the failed and oppressive Castro regime. Unless and until fundamental human rights are respected in Cuba and a path to freedom is clearly charted in accordance with the LIBERTAD Act of 1996, the U.S. should ramp up economic pressure on the dictatorship and increase support for the pro-democracy dissident movement.
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Cincuenta y ocho empresarios, ex diplomáticos, profesores, exprisioneros políticos, activistas y opositores dentro de Cuba pidieron al Congreso “oponerse a concesiones unilaterales” y mantener las sanciones al gobierno de la isla, en una carta abierta publicada el miércoles en el diario Washington Post.
Open letter to Congress opposes Obama's new Cuba policy
Former Diplomats, University Professors, Representatives of Cuba’s Democratic Opposition on the Island and in Exile, and Former Corporate Leaders Write to Congress on President Obama’s New Cuba Policy.
Fifty-eight former diplomats, university professors, leaders of Cuba's democratic opposition on the island and in exile, and former corporate leaders wrote an open letter to Congress objecting to President Obama's efforts to remove the Castros’ regime from the State Department list of governments supportive of terrorism.
The letter: “The New Cuba Policy: Breakthrough or Bailout?,” was distributed on Capitol Hill today and says that “increasing U.S. travel to Cuba under the Castro-manipulated people-to-people program will benefit the military which owns all of Cuba’s hotels and tourist infrastructure.”
Among those signing the appeal to Congress are Paula Dobriansky, former Undersecretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs, James Cason, former U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay and former Chief of Mission at the U.S. Interests Section in Havana, Cuba, Ambassador Phillip Hughes, former Executive Secretary, National Security Council and former U.S. Ambassador to the Eastern Caribbean, Everett Ellis Briggs, former U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, Panama, and Portugal and former President of the Council of the Americas and Americas Society, and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton.
“Removing Cuba from the list of terrorist states will reward the Castro regime for smuggling 240 tons of heavy weapons to North Korea, training and equipping Venezuela’s repressive forces, offering Russia’s Putin an espionage listening post in Cuba, and harboring dozens of fugitive terrorists and criminals, including one of the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted Terrorists, Assata Shakur,” they said. They added that “Cuba is the only “state-sponsored of terrorism” nation to openly harbor a fugitive on the most-wanted terrorist list.”
The corporate community was represented by: Emilio Alvarez-Recio, former Vicepresident Worldwide Advertising of Colgate-Palmolive, Néstor T. Carbonell, former Vicepresident for International Government Affairs of Pepsico, Ruben Rodriguez-Wallin, former Chairman and CEO of Bacardi, and Alberto Luzarraga, former Chairman of Continental Bank International.
Also signing were Michael Gonzalez, Senior Fellow, The Heritage Foundation, former U.S. Senator Mel Martinez, Robert O’Brien, Treasurer, Center for a Free Cuba, and José Sorzano, former Deputy U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
Two of the signatories: Miriam and Mario de la Peña are parents of Mario M. de la Peña, one of four pilots murdered by Cuban warplanes in international airspace in 1996." "One of the spies exchanged by President Obama was serving a life sentence for his role in those murders," the letter says. General Raul Castro, then Cuba's Minister of the Armed Forces" ordered the murders and later awarded medals to the officers who pulled the trigger."
The project to raise this issue with the Congress honors the “memory of Manuel Jorge Cutillas and his lifelong dedication to the cause of freedom in Cuba."
Following is the full text of the letter to the Congress including signatories. The signatories have signed this letter in their personal capacities; they do not reflect the views of their company, organization or university, current or past. Center for Free Cuba is a 501-c3 organization according to the Internal Revenue Service. The Center neither supports nor opposes any legislation before Congress. If you would like to add your name then sign here.
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DISTRIBUCION INMEDIATA
THE NEW CUBA POLICY: BREAKTHROUGH OR BAILOUT?
Open Letter to Congress
President Barack Obama’s New Cuba Policy is a big win for the repressive Communist regime in Cuba and for the Castro brothers who still rule the island. The regime, faced with the possible loss of its Venezuelan financial lifeline, will receive, under the President’s policy, a major U.S. diplomatic and economic boost.
This without having to take any credible steps to democratize the country or to give up its outrageous demands, including the return of the U.S. Naval Base of Guantanamo and compensation for the alleged multibillion dollar losses incurred by Cuba as a result of the U.S. embargo.
This is a one-sided policy, which circumvents the 1996 LIBERTAD Act and other statutes, ignores the views and sacrifices of the Cuban dissident movement, puts U.S. security at risk, and further erodes America’s reputation as a champion of human rights and freedom.
• NORMALIZING U.S. RELATIONS WITH CUBA, under current conditions, will embolden the Castro regime to continue intensifying repression. Several dozen political prisoners were recently released, but 8,889 peaceful dissidents were arrested and rearrested in 2014—close to 40% more than in 2013.
• REMOVING CUBA FROM THE LIST OF TERRORIST STATES will reward the Castro regime for smuggling 240 tons of heavy weapons to North Korea, training and equipping Venezuela’s repressive forces, offering Russia’s Putin an espionage listening post in Cuba, and harboring dozens of fugitive terrorists and criminals, including one of the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted Terrorists, Assata Shakur. Cuba is the only “state-sponsored of terrorism” nation to openly harbor a fugitive on the most-wanted terrorist list.
• INCREASING U.S. TRAVEL TO CUBA UNDER THE CASTRO-MANIPULATED PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE PROGRAM will benefit the military, which owns all of Cuba’s hotels and tourist infrastructure.
• SHIPPING TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY AND HARDWARE TO CUBA, without assurances of affordable public internet access and an end to censorship, will help tighten the government’s control of information available to Cubans.
• OPENING ACCOUNTS IN CASH-STRAPPED CUBAN GOVERNMENT BANKS will expose U.S. capital to the same politicized financial institutions that froze $1 billion of foreign deposits in 2009.
• GRANTING EXPORT CREDITS TO THE CASTRO REGIME, which has reneged on its international debts and is now virtually insolvent, will pose inordinate risks to U.S. taxpayers, who ultimately will shoulder any losses.
• LIFTING THE U.S. EMBARGO, as requested by the President to Congress, will channel the dollars of American tourists and investors to Cuban government enterprises, which control the economy, assign Cuban workers to foreign companies, and keep 92 cents of each dollar of every worker’s salary.
We urge Congress to oppose unilateral concessions that bail out the failed and oppressive Castro regime. Unless and until fundamental human rights are respected in Cuba and a path to freedom is clearly charted in accordance with the LIBERTAD Act of 1996, the U.S. should ramp up economic pressure on the dictatorship and increase support for the pro-democracy dissident movement.
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Tomado de http://www.elnuevoherald.com
Publican carta abierta contra la apertura a Cuba
Por Nora Gamez Torres
ngameztorres@elnuevoherald.com
02/11/2015
Cincuenta y ocho empresarios, ex diplomáticos, profesores, exprisioneros políticos, activistas y opositores dentro de Cuba pidieron al Congreso “oponerse a concesiones unilaterales” y mantener las sanciones al gobierno de la isla, en una carta abierta publicada el miércoles en el diario Washington Post.
El documento, titulado La nueva política hacia Cuba: ¿avance o rescate? preparado por el Centro para una Cuba Libre –una organización independiente no partidista que promueve una transición hacia la democracia en la isla– afirma que “la eliminación de Cuba de la lista de estados terroristas premiará al régimen de Castro por el contrabando de 240 toneladas de armamento pesado a Corea del Norte, la formación y el equipamiento de las fuerzas represivas de Venezuela, el ofrecimiento a la Rusia de Putin de un puesto de escucha de espionaje en Cuba, y el albergue a decenas de terroristas fugitivos y criminales, incluyendo a Assata Shakur, en la lista de los diez terroristas más buscados por el FBI”.
También aboga por mantener las restricciones de viajes a la isla y el embargo, pues su levantamiento “canalizaría los dólares de turistas e inversionistas estodounidenses hacia las empresas del gobierno cubano, que controlan la economía, manejan las contrataciones de los trabajadores que laboran en empresas extranjeras y se quedan con 92 centavos de cada dólar de sus salarios”.
Entre los firmantes se encuentran varios ex subsecretarios de Estado para Latinoamérica, como Elliot Abrams, Otto Reich y Roger Noriega así como ex embajadores en América Latina o Cuba, como Everett Ellis Briggs, James Cason y Philip Hughes, todas personas “que pueden decir que conocen América Latina”, destacó Frank Calzón, director ejecutivo del Centro para una Cuba Libre.
También suscribieron el documento el alcalde de Miami, Tomás Regalado, los opositores cubanos Antonio Rodiles, Sara Marta Fonseca y Jorge Luis García Pérez (Antúnez) así como Miriam y Mario de la Peña, padres de Mario M. de la Peña, uno de los cuatro pilotos que murieron durante el derribo de dos avionetas 
de la organización Hermanos al Rescate por aviones de guerra cubanos en febrero de 1996.
de la organización Hermanos al Rescate por aviones de guerra cubanos en febrero de 1996.
Los familiares de los pilotos fallecidos han estado en el centro del debate pues uno de los agentes cubanos que fueron liberados y devueltos a Cuba el 17 de diciembre, Gerardo Hernández, fue condenado por su papel en esos acontecimientos.
En una audiencia en el Congreso la semana pasada, la representante Ileana Ros-Lehtinen recriminó a la jefa de la delegación de EEUU que viajó a La Habana en enero, la subsecretaria de Estado para los Asuntos del Hemisferio Occidental Roberta Jacobson, que el Departamento de Estado hubiera mentido a los familiares de las víctimas en relación a la liberación de Hernández.
El tenso intercambio ilustra la polémica que ha generado la nueva política de acercamiento hacia Cuba –que implica el reestablecimiento de relaciones diplomáticas y una futura “normalización”– entre políticos y miembros de la comunidad cubanoamericana en Estados Unidos.
En enero, la víspera del discurso del Estado de la Unión, políticos estadounidenses, líderes cubanoamericanos y expertos de ambos partidos enviaron una carta al presidente Obama, saludando su “acciones históricas” para actualizar la política hacia Cuba y pidiéndole que trabaje junto al Congreso para “actualizar el marco legal” relativo a la isla.
Pero miembros de la comunidad de exiliados cubanos opuestos frontalmente a lo que llaman “el pacto Obama-Castro” han protestado públicamente en las calles de Miami, y varios declinaron la invitación para reunirse con Jacobson y uno de los negociadores que selló el acuerdo entre Washington y La Habana, el asesor de la Casa Blanca para América Latina, Ricardo Zúñiga. Ambos llegaron a Miami el martes con planes de acercarse a la comunidad para explicar la nueva estrategia promovida por la administración.
“Esa reunión para mí es inaceptable”, comentó Angel de Fana, representante del grupo de exprisioneros políticos Plantados. Otros, como el abogado Alfredo Durán, aceptaron acudir al encuentro, del cual el Departamento de Estado no ha dado detalles.
Durán dijo sentirse “muy optimista” de que que la nueva política pueda lograr “cambios democráticos en Cuba, sobre todo cuando pase la actual generación en el gobierno cubano”.
El abogado celebró que “por primera vez en 55 años, Estados Unidos se decide a tener una política exterior hacia Cuba y no una política electoral, marcada por los votos de la Florida y Nueva Jersey”.
Zúñiga dijo a Univisión 23 el martes que la negativa de varios exiliados de asistir a la reunión “es parte normal de la democracia. Todos tienen derecho a decir lo que piensan, pero siempre vamos a estar dispuestos al diálogo”, insistió.
“Es un debate sobre Cuba que está teniendo lugar aquí en Estados Unidos pero los cubanos no pueden tener un debate semejante dentro de la isla. Y eso es lo que queremos promover”, comentó Calzón.
El asesor de la Casa Blanca y la subsecretaria de Estado se reunieron con familiares de los pilotos fallecidos este miércoles para conversar “sobre la mejora de la vida de los cubanos que viven en la isla”, y cómo “ver un país próspero, estable y democrático en Cuba”, según indica un comunicado de prensa.
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Tomado de http://freecubafoundation.blogspot.com
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Open letter to Congress opposes Obama's new Cuba policy
Former Diplomats, University Professors, Representatives of Cuba’s Democratic Opposition on the Island and in Exile, and Former Corporate Leaders Write to Congress on President Obama’s New Cuba Policy.
Fifty-eight former diplomats, university professors, leaders of Cuba's democratic opposition on the island and in exile, and former corporate leaders wrote an open letter to Congress objecting to President Obama's efforts to remove the Castros’ regime from the State Department list of governments supportive of terrorism.
The letter: “The New Cuba Policy: Breakthrough or Bailout?,” was distributed on Capitol Hill today and says that “increasing U.S. travel to Cuba under the Castro-manipulated people-to-people program will benefit the military which owns all of Cuba’s hotels and tourist infrastructure.”
Among those signing the appeal to Congress are Paula Dobriansky, former Undersecretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs, James Cason, former U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay and former Chief of Mission at the U.S. Interests Section in Havana, Cuba, Ambassador Phillip Hughes, former Executive Secretary, National Security Council and former U.S. Ambassador to the Eastern Caribbean, Everett Ellis Briggs, former U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, Panama, and Portugal and former President of the Council of the Americas and Americas Society, and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton.
“Removing Cuba from the list of terrorist states will reward the Castro regime for smuggling 240 tons of heavy weapons to North Korea, training and equipping Venezuela’s repressive forces, offering Russia’s Putin an espionage listening post in Cuba, and harboring dozens of fugitive terrorists and criminals, including one of the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted Terrorists, Assata Shakur,” they said. They added that “Cuba is the only “state-sponsored of terrorism” nation to openly harbor a fugitive on the most-wanted terrorist list.”
The corporate community was represented by: Emilio Alvarez-Recio, former Vicepresident Worldwide Advertising of Colgate-Palmolive, Néstor T. Carbonell, former Vicepresident for International Government Affairs of Pepsico, Ruben Rodriguez-Wallin, former Chairman and CEO of Bacardi, and Alberto Luzarraga, former Chairman of Continental Bank International.
Also signing were Michael Gonzalez, Senior Fellow, The Heritage Foundation, former U.S. Senator Mel Martinez, Robert O’Brien, Treasurer, Center for a Free Cuba, and José Sorzano, former Deputy U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
Two of the signatories: Miriam and Mario de la Peña are parents of Mario M. de la Peña, one of four pilots murdered by Cuban warplanes in international airspace in 1996." "One of the spies exchanged by President Obama was serving a life sentence for his role in those murders," the letter says. General Raul Castro, then Cuba's Minister of the Armed Forces" ordered the murders and later awarded medals to the officers who pulled the trigger."
The project to raise this issue with the Congress honors the “memory of Manuel Jorge Cutillas and his lifelong dedication to the cause of freedom in Cuba."
Following is the full text of the letter to the Congress including signatories. The signatories have signed this letter in their personal capacities; they do not reflect the views of their company, organization or university, current or past. Center for Free Cuba is a 501-c3 organization according to the Internal Revenue Service. The Center neither supports nor opposes any legislation before Congress. If you would like to add your name then sign here.
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NOTA DE PRENSA
11 de febrero de 2015
DISTRIBUCION INMEDIATA
Contacto de Prensa:
Frank Calzon, 202-427-3875
El Centro para Cuba Libre publicó un anuncio hoy en el Washington Post. En ese anuncio se incluyó una nota que dice “este anuncio es en honor a la memoria de Manuel Jorge Cutillas y su dedicación de toda una vida a la libertad en Cuba.” En el anuncio publicado en el Washington Post de hoy no aparece como una de los firmantes Rosa María Payá Acevedo.
Lamentablemente una pueba del anuncio circuló por la red anoche. En esa prueba no aparecía la referencia al Sr. Cutillas y si aparecía por un error de comunicación el nombre de Rosa María.
Lamentamos el error, aunque el Centro no puso en la red la prueba en cuestion, y le damos excusas a Rosa María por lo sucedido.
Entre tanto, hemos recibido comunicaciones de diplomáticos, profesores universitarios,y líderes del mundo corporativo que habiendo firmado el anuncio se han comunicado para felicitar al Centro por esta iniciativa.
Corrección a Correos Electrónicos Que Mencionan al Centro para Cuba Libre en la Red
El Centro para Cuba Libre publicó un anuncio hoy en el Washington Post. En ese anuncio se incluyó una nota que dice “este anuncio es en honor a la memoria de Manuel Jorge Cutillas y su dedicación de toda una vida a la libertad en Cuba.” En el anuncio publicado en el Washington Post de hoy no aparece como una de los firmantes Rosa María Payá Acevedo.
Lamentablemente una pueba del anuncio circuló por la red anoche. En esa prueba no aparecía la referencia al Sr. Cutillas y si aparecía por un error de comunicación el nombre de Rosa María.
Lamentamos el error, aunque el Centro no puso en la red la prueba en cuestion, y le damos excusas a Rosa María por lo sucedido.
Entre tanto, hemos recibido comunicaciones de diplomáticos, profesores universitarios,y líderes del mundo corporativo que habiendo firmado el anuncio se han comunicado para felicitar al Centro por esta iniciativa.
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