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Cuba Report Featured in The Hill

The Hill covers the release of the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center’s new report, US-Cuba: A New Public Survey Supports Policy Change:

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The Poll In-Depth: Details of the Embargo

By Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center

Respondents were asked if they supported or opposed five possible ways to change US policy toward Cuba. POLICY OPTION 1: Allowing more American companies to do business in Cuba

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The Poll In-Depth: Reasons for Change

By Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center

Respondents were read factual statements about the United States and Cuba and asked if they considered each statement a reason to normalize relations or keep current policy in place. STATEMENT 1: Cuba is only ninety miles away from the US mainland.

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US-Cuba Poll: Policy Implications

By Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center

Cuba, an island nation of 11 million people, has become a boulder-sized pebble in the shoes of US relations with a region of over 580 million people. More than five decades after it was first implemented, the Cuba embargo is hampering the United States’ ability to maximize cooperation with allies in the hemisphere at a […]

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The Poll In-Depth: Attitudes on Engagement

By Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center

Perception of US Diplomatic Relations with Other Nations Respondents were asked to rank the closeness of the United States’ relationship with various countries using a 1-7 scale. This question helped determine understanding of the current status of the United States’ international relationships. An overwhelming majority of people indicated very close ties to England, with a strong […]

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Next Steps: How President Obama Should Advance US-Cuba Relations

By Ted Piccone

In 2009, President Obama began relaxing tough sanctions on Cuba, expanding the free flow of people and remittances and planting the seeds of a new paradigm for U.S.-Cuba relations – one that looks beyond the outdated Cold War-era approach that has been employed for so long.

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The Beginning of the End

By Pedro Freyre and Matthew Aho

The results of the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center poll on Americans’ attitudes on U.S.–Cuba relations can be interpreted in only one way: the tide of U. S. public opinion has turned away from isolation and toward engagement and normalization.

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Twin Failures

By Peter Hakim

Last month’s meeting in Havana of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), which incorportates every country of the hemisphere except the United States and Canada, was a celebration of the single point of consensus among the Community’s member states: their opposition to US policies that seek to isolate and punish Cuba, which […]

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US-Cuba: A New Public Survey Supports Policy Change

By Peter Schechter and Jason Marczak

Why is now the right moment to commission a poll on the US public’s views toward Cuba and US-Cuba relations? Why is a new, nonpartisan Latin America center reaching out to grab the third rail of Latin American foreign policy in the United States? Both good questions. Sometimes in foreign policy, structural impediments or stark […]

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Senior Fellow, Economic Development

Frequently Asked Questions on the Cuba Poll

By Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center

1. Why is a think tank conducting a political poll? As a fresh, non-partisan voice in the Latin American policy scene, the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center is dedicated to exploring the growing interconnection among countries of the Western Hemisphere. With more than 80 percent growth in trade in the last decade, Latin […]

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Enrique Millán-Mejía

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Americas Colombia

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Erin K. McFee

Former United States Ambassador to Brazil

Latin America National Security

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Clifford Sobel

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Brazil Economy & Business

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Brenda Estefan