Statements and Press Releases

2008
--03/18/08  Anniversary of Cuba’s Black Spring

2007
--10/24/07  OTR Briefing with Secretary of Commerce Gutierrez and A/S for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas A. Shannon On Cuba Policy; Carlos Gutierrez, Secretary of Commerce; Washington, DC
--10/24/07  Remarks by the President on Cuba Policy; President George W. Bush; Benjamin Franklin Room, Department of State; Washington, DC
--04/25/07  Fugitive of 40 Years Returned From Cuba To U.S. By Diplomatic Security
--03/20/07  Fourth Anniversary of the Cuban Dissident Crackdown

2006
--10/13/06  Luncheon Remarks at the Cuba Transition to Democracy Summit; Dr. Paula Dobriansky, Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs; Coral Gables, Florida
--10/13/06  Welcome Remarks at the Cuba Transition to Democracy Summit; Dr. Paula Dobriansky, Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs; Washington, DC
--08/23/06  U.S. Policy Toward Cuba; Thomas Shannon, Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC
--08/11/06  Cuba Policy; Thomas A. Shannon, Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs; On-the-Record Briefing; Washington, DC    
--08/06/06  Interview on NBC's Meet the Press With Tim Russert; Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Crawford, Texas
--08/04/06  Interview on MSNBC’s Hardball With David Gregory; Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Washington, DC
--08/04/06  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Message to the People of Cuba; Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Washington, DC 
--08/03/06  Cuba: A Democratic Transition
--08/03/06  Cuba: Statement by President Bush
--07/10/06  Second Report of the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba and the Compact With the Cuban People; Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Briefing with Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez and Cuba Transition Coordinator Caleb McCarry; Washington, DC 
--07/10/06  President's Statement on Second Report of the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba
--07/10/06  Release of Second Report of the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba; Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Statement by Secretary Rice and Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez; Washington, DC
--05/08/06  Repression of Cuban Dissidents
--03/21/06  Cuba: Three-Year Anniversary of the Crackdown on Activists
--01/11/06  Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba (Taken Question)

2005
--12/19/05  Meeting of the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba; Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Washington, DC
--11/02/05  U.S. Offer of Assistance to Cuba in the Wake of Hurricane Wilma
--07/28/05  Announcement of Cuba Transition Coordinator Caleb McCarry; Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Treaty Room; Washington, DC
--07/23/05  End the Repression in Cuba
--07/11/05  U.S. Assistance to Cuba for Hurricane Dennis

2004
--12/16/04  Cuban Dissident "Hilda Molina" Seeks Permission to Leave the Island and Visit Her Family in Argentina (Taken Question)
--12/15/04
--12/14/04  Statement by James Cason, Chief of Mission, U.S. Interests Section, About Cuban Government Threats due to Holiday Lights and Decorations; Havana, Cuba
--11/04/04  Cuba: Human Rights Situation
--10/08/04  Castro, Colombia and Venezuela (Taken Question)
--10/07/04  Purchase of Cuban Cigars by Employees of the U.S Interest Section in Havana for Transport to the United States (Taken Question)
--08/23/04  U.S. Broadcasts Radio and TV Marti to the Cuban People
--08/13/04  U.S. humanitarian relief to Cuban Victims of Hurricane Charley
--07/21/04  Treatment of Oscar Elias Biscet and Other Cuban Political Prisoners
--06/17/04  Continuing Human Rights Abuses in Cuba; Michael G. Kozak, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor; Testimony before the Committee on Government Reform; Washington, DC
--03/19/04  Cuba: Condemn Castro Regime's Abuses; Secretary Colin L. Powell; Op-Ed; Miami Herald
--02/27/04  Message to the U.S. Congress to Continue the National Emergency Declared in 1996 in Response to the Cuban Government's Destruction of Two Unarmed U.S. Aircraft
--02/27/04  White House Release: National Emergency Relating to 1996 Cuba Regulation of the Anchorage and Movement of Vessels
--01/21/04  U.S. Condemns Continued Imprisonment of Cuban Human Rights Defenders
--01/16/04  Humanitarian Aid for a Cuba in Transition; Ambassador Roger F. Noriega, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs; Remarks at a USAID/Cuba Transition Project Seminar ; Washington, DC

2003
Cubans and their loved ones: Political prisoners and their families. A photographic exhibit
--10/10/03  President Bush Discusses Cuban Policy in Rose Garden Speech ; Remarks by the President on Cuba; Washington, DC
--10/04/03  Entering the Final Phase of Cuba's Inevitable Transition to Democracy; Ambassador Roger F. Noriega, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs; Remarks at the Institute for Cuban Studies; Miami, Florida
--10/02/03  U.S. Policy Toward Cuba; Ambassador Roger F. Noriega, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs; Statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Washington, DC
--09/22/03  The United States Issues 20,000 Immigrant Visas to Cuban Citizens in FiscalYear 2003
--06/05/03  U.S.-Cuba Migration Talks Scheduled for June 6
--06/02/03  U.S. Concern About the Health of Oscar Espinosa Chepe and Other Political Prisoners
--05/19/03  Supporting the Ideals of Democracy and Human Rights in Cuba; Ambassador Roger F. Noriega, U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States; Remarks to the Permanent Council, OAS; Washington, DC
--04/17/03  Passage of the Resolution on the Situation of Human Rights in Cuba ; Kevin E. Moley, Ambassador to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in Geneva; Remarks to the Press; Geneva, Switzerland
--04/16/03  Acting Assistant Secretary's Testimony Denouncing Cuba's Recent Repression of Dissidents ; J. Curtis Struble, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs; Remarks to Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs, House International Relations Committee; Washington, DC
--04/16/03  Testimony from USAID Official Condemns Mass Arrests and Summary Executions in Cuba; Karen A. Harbert, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean, USAID; Remarks to Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs, House International Relations Committee; Washington, DC
--04/07/03  Remarks on Cuba Transition Project and Emergence of Activists in Cuba ; James C. Cason, Chief of Mission, U.S. Interests Section, Havana, Cuba ; Remarks to University of Miami; Miami, Florida
--04/03/03  Cuba: Kangaroo Courts
--03/26/03  Castro Government Cracks Down on Pro-Democracy and Human Rights Activists
--03/06/03  Limits on Books and Information in Cuba

2002
--12/13/02  U.S. - Cuba Migration Talks Set for December 17, 2002
--12/09/02  On the Record Briefing: The Grant to the Sabre Foundation; Lorne W. Craner, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor ; Washington, DC
--01/16/02  President Bush: Letter Regarding Title III of Cuban Liberty, Democratic Solidarity Act
--04/07/02  Secretary Powell: Op-Ed on the United States and Cuba - Diario Las Americas
--09/17/02  Initiative for a New Cuba

2001
--09/18/01  Cuba: Ibero-American Resolution (Taken Question)
--07/16/01  The Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act; President George W. Bush; Released by the White House; Washington, DC
--07/13/01  Toward a Democratic Cuba ; President George W. Bush; Washington, DC