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Cuba: Issues for the 110th Congress
Recent Developments
On April 25, 2007, Cuba expelled U.S. fugitive Joseph Adjmi to the United
States. Adjmi had been convicted of mail fraud in the 1960s, but disappeared before
beginning his 10-year sentence.
On April 24, 2007, the Cuban government released six dissidents, arrested in
2005, after serving most or all of their sentences.
On April 23, 2007, one of Cuba's longest serving political prisoners, Jorge Luis
Garcia P6rez, was released from prison after 17 years.
On April 19, 2007, Luis Posada Carriles, alleged to be involved in the 1976
bombing of a Cuban airliner and 1997 bombings in Cuba, was released from jail in
New Mexico, and allowed to return to Miami under house arrest awaiting trial on
immigration fraud charges. Cuba and Venezuela, where Carriles had escaped from
prison in 1985, strongly denounced Posada's release.
On April 16, 2007, many of Cuba's leading dissident groups signed a statement
declaring that they were united in their struggle for a peaceful transition toward
democracy.
On April 2, 2007, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) announced
that it had begun an investigation to report on the effects of trade and travel
restrictions on U.S. exports of agricultural, fish, and forest products to Cuba at the
request of the Senate Committee on Finance. The ITC is expected to submit its
report to the committee by June 29, 2007.
In April 2007, the Cuban government conducted secret trials sentencing human
rights activist Rolando Jim6nez Posada to 12 years in jail, and independent journalist
Oscar Sanchez Madan to 4 years.
On February 5, 2007, the State Department, in its FY2008 budget request for
foreign operations, requested $45.7 million in democracy assistance for Cuba to
support the recommendations of the Administration's July 2006 report of the
Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba. The request is more than four times the
amount provided in FY2006, and more than five times the amount requested in
FY2007.
On February 8, 2007, Cuba extradited alleged Colombia drug cartel leader Luis
Hernando G6mez Bustamante to Colombia. G6mez Bustamante will likely be
extradited to the United States, where he is wanted on drug trafficking charges.
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Sullivan, Mark P. Cuba: Issues for the 110th Congress, report, May 1, 2007; Washington D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc806283/m1/4/?q=food+rule+for+unt+students: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.