Overview

Cuba is one of the most economically and politically repressed countries in the world. The Heritage Foundation's 2003 Index of Economic Freedom, released November 12, 2002, places Cuba 155th among the 156 countries--just above North Korea--at the bottom of all "economically repressed regimes" in the world. Freedom House lists the Government of Cuba (GOC) among the 11 "most repressive regimes" in the world, with failing scores on political rights and civil liberties. The reasons are apparent. The GOC violates fundamental human rights and directly controls mass media, trade unions, universities, and all formal economic activity.

Program Information

• Congressional Budget Justification 2005

Feature Stories

• Adolfo Franco Addresses the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy - August 2004

Press

• Cubans... and their loved ones A photographic exhibit of political prisoners and their families
• AA/LAC Adolfo A. Franco's speech to the U.S.-Cuba Seminar, 10/04/03
• AA/LAC Adolfo A. Franco's speech to the University of Miami's Cuba Transition Seminar, 10/17/02
• U.S. Officials Commemorate Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
  • En español

Reports

• Update of USAID Cuba Program, 01/15/04
• University of Florida: Survey of Recent Cuban Emigres (224KB, pdf)
• Human Rights Report 2003 State Department
• International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES): Transitional Election Planning Manual:
  • English [558KB, PDF]
  • En espaņol [588KB ,PDF]
• PricewaterhouseCoopers Evaluation of the USAID Cuba Program, 7/21/00
• Support for Democratic Transition in Cuba, 01/28/97
• University of Miami Cuba Transition Project (CTP)
• News Links and Information Sources

  Links to Government Institutions, International Organizations, Media, and Universities

  • University of Miami Cuba Transition Project
  • Cuba On-Line Database of Information