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December

• U.S. - Cuba Migration Talks Set for December 17, 2002 December 13, 2002 - On Tuesday, December 17, 2002, the United States and Cuba will meet for the 18th round of the semi-annual U.S.-Cuba Migration Talks.
• 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

  November

• CUBA'S POST-CASTRO TRANSITION: DEMOGRAPHIC ISSUES A Study Prepared under an Interagency Agreement by the Federal Research Division, Library of Congress - October 2002 -- It is argued here that at the death of Fidel Castro the one-party political regime in place today will continue to govern the island for the foreseeable future.

  October

  September

• 09/17/02 Initiative for a New Cuba

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  June

• State Department Reaffirms Cuba Has Biological Warfare Research Effort Washington File 05 Jun 2002-- A State Department official has reaffirmed the Bush administration's belief that Cuba has a "limited, developmental, offensive biological warfare research and development effort" and that the Caribbean nation has provided "dual-use biotechnology to rogue states."
• Zenith and Eclipse: A Comparative Look at Socio-Economic Conditions in Pre-Castro and Present Day Cuba Released by the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, February 9, 1998. Revised June 2002 - It is true that Cuba's infant mortality rate is the second best in Latin America today, but it was the best in Latin America -- and the 13th lowest in the world -- in pre-Castro Cuba.

  May

• REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON CUBA POLICY REVIEW May 20, 2002 - Bush said full normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba -- "diplomatic recognition, open trade, and a robust aid program -- will only be possible when Cuba has a new government that is fully democratic, when the rule of law is respected, and when the human rights of all Cubans are fully protected."
• Powell Says Cuba Has Biological Weapons Research Capacity Washington File 14 May 2002-- Secretary of State Colin Powell says the United States believes that Cuba has a biological offensive research capability, but "we didn't say that it actually had such weapons."
• RESPONSE FROM DR. FIDEL CASTRO RUZ, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA, TO THE STATEMENTS MADE BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT ON BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS 10 May 2002 - The idea of destroying Cuba, an obsession that has lasted more than 43 years, has lead and still leads U.S. policy down a tortuous path filled with lies, mistakes, failures and crimes. What the US government is telling the world today and what it is doing with Cuba is perhaps the most grievous and demoralizing contradiction in its foreign policy.

  April

• POLITICAL STATEMENT BY DR. FIDEL CASTRO RUZ, PRESIDENT OF THE STATE COUNCIL OF THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA April 22, 2002 -- Mr. Bush impatiently waited for hours in El Paso --currently located in the U.S. border with Mexico since the invasion of 1846, when half of the country's territory was snatched-- for the report that such an annoying participant had left Mexico. Nobody from protocol remembered it or perhaps they did no want to bother the disciplined and obedient, albeit absent-minded guest who finally left Monterrey a 5:00 pm. Apparently, Bush grew tired of waiting and received permission, or decided by himself, to be on his way lest he might be late for dinner.
• 04/07/02 Secretary Powell: Op-Ed on the United States and Cuba - Diario Las Americas

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  January

• 01/16/02 President Bush: Letter Regarding Title III of Cuban Liberty, Democratic Solidarity Act
• Strategic Writing on Cuba RUSSELL W. RAMSEY Parameters, Winter 2001-02, pp. 144-52 -- The time is nigh to apply the US policy of engagement. An exchange of diplomatic, cultural, economic, police, and military figures between the two countries, with careful attention to the nominations of the Cuban exile community, would create multiple links through which a gloriously endowed Caribbean island could reach its potential as a significant and respected nation.