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CIAO DATE: 08/01
U.S.-Cuban Relations in the 21st Century: A Follow-On Chairman's Report
Julia Sweig, Project Director
Walter Mead, Project Director
February 2001
Abstract
In the last quarter of 1998, following the visit to Cuba of Pope John Paul II, the Council on Foreign Relations convened an Independent Task Force to assess U.S. policy toward Cuba in the post-Cold War era. The Task Force represents a bipartisan group of former State Department officials, congressional staff, labor leaders, and students of Latin American affairs and U.S. foreign policy from a cross section of think tanks, academic and religious institutions, businesses, rade unions, and government agencies. In a chairman's report issued in January 1999, the Task Force recommended a number of steps to strengthen civil society in Cuba, expand people-to-people contact between Cubans and Americans, and "contribute to rapid, peaceful, democratic transition in Cuba while safeguarding the vital interests of the United States."
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