EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1: HASTENING CUBA’S TRANSITION

1. Executive Summary

2. Introduction

3. Empower Cuban Civil Society
   1. Current U.S. Assistance Program
   2. Improve U.S. Outreach to Cuban Civil Society

4. Break the Information Blockade

5. Deny Revenues to the Castro Regime
   1. Undermine Regime-sustaining Tourism
   2. Limit the Regime’s Manipulation of Humanitarian U.S. Policies
   3. Deny Other Sources of Revenue to the Regime

6. Illuminate the Reality of Castro’s Cuba

7. Encourage International Diplomatic Efforts to Support Cuban Civil Society and to Challenge the Castro Regime

8. Undermine the Regime’s Succession Strategy

1. Executive Summary

2. Introduction

3. Immediate Actions
   1. The Current Situation in Cuba Prior to Transition
   2. Developing a Transition Assistance Plan
   3. Humanitarian Assessment and Program Design
   4. Challenges in Providing Humanitarian Aid
   5. Implementing Short-Term Assistance
   6. Food Aid for Cuba in the Short-term
   7. Action Plan

4. Medium- and Long-Term Actions
   1. Health
   2. Education and Culture
   3. Food and Agriculture
   4. Housing and Urban Policy
   5. Other Human Services

5. Consulting and Coordinating with the International Community

CHAPTER 3: ESTABLISHING DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS, RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, RULE OF LAW, AND NATIONAL JUSTICE AND RECONCILIATION

1. Executive Summary

2. U.S. Assistance to a Transition Government

3. Human Rights
   1. Political Prisoners
   2. Prison Conditions
   3. Other Human Rights Abuses
   4. Cuban Human Rights Commission
   5. International Support for Human Rights
   6. Guaranteeing Free Speech
   7. Ensuring Equal Opportunity

4. National Justice and Reconciliation
   1. Truth Commission
   2. Preserving the Old Regime’s Records
   3. Renunciation of Official Violence
   4. International Fugitives from Justice

5. Establishing Democratic Institutions
   
   
   1. Strengthening Legislative Institutions
   2. Independent Political Parties and Interest Groups
   3. Free and Fair Elections
   4. International Support for Elections
   5. Inter-American Democratic Charter
   6. Public Sector Reform
   7. Fighting Corruption
   8. Independent Trade Unions
   9. Support for Decentralization

6. Rule of Law
   1. Constitutional Reform
   2. The Armed Forces
   3. Independent Judiciary
   4. Reconstituting Police Forces and Functions

1. Executive Summary

2. Introduction

3. Immediate Actions
   1. Introduction
   2. Stabilize the Economy, Decontrol Pricing, and Begin to Denationalize State-Owned/Controlled Entities
   3. Trade
   4. Rejoin International Financial Institutions (IFIs) and Other International/Regional Institutions
   5. Encourage Foreign Investment
   6. Reschedule the External Debt
   7. Trade Financing/Credits

4. Medium- and Long-Term Actions
   1. Settle Outstanding Expropriated Property Claims
   2. Rekindle Entrepreneurship and Private Enterprise
   3. Establish an Independent Banking System and an Independent Central Bank
   4. Build an Effective Finance/Economy Ministry
   5. Create an Independent Tax Collection Agency
   6. Streamline Existing Government Economic Ministries
   7. Promote Ownership of Private Property
   8. Establish Free And Efficient Labor Markets
   9. Promote Healthy Labor Management Relations with Newly Independent Unions

5. Engaging and Empowering the Cuban People

6. Consulting and Coordinating with the International Community

CHAPTER 5: MODERNIZING INFRASTRUCTURE

1. Executive Summary

2. Introduction

3. Immediate Actions
   1. Transportation
      1. Aviation
      2. Maritime
      3. Railroads
      4. Highways

   2. Energy Infrastructure
   3. Water Resources Infrastructure

4. Medium- and Long-Term Actions
   
   
   1. Regional Planning Councils
   2. Transportation
      
      
      1. Aviation
      2. Maritime
      3. Railroads
      4. Public Transportation
      5. Highways
      6. Traffic and Vehicle Safety

   3. Energy Infrastructure
   4. Telecommunication
   5. Water Resources
   6. Cultural and Historical Infrastructure

5. Engaging and Empowering the Cuban People

6. Consulting and Coordination with the International Community

CHAPTER 6: ADDRESSING ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION

1. Executive Summary

2. Introduction

3. Immediate Actions
   1. Drinking Water and Wastewater

4. Medium- and Long-Term Actions
   
   
   1. Environmental Quality and Protection
      1. Environmental Governance
      2. Water Quality
      3. Land Management
      4. Air Quality
      5. Other Environmental Issues

   2. Natural, Cultural, and Historical Resources
      1. Parks and Protected Areas, Forests, and Marine Protected Areas 
      2. Wildlife and Fisheries Management

5. Engaging & Empowering the Cuban People

6. Consulting & Coordination with the International Community