In just over a year of existence, Cuba Policy Foundation has emerged as the leading anti-embargo organization.  Cuba Policy Foundation has affected the Cuba policy debate as quickly and palpably as the organization’s founders had promised, and our reach and influence continues to grow. Click here to see what members of Congress, Republican and Democratic, are saying about CPF.

The Cuba Policy Foundation’s leaders have traveled the United States to hold news conferences on the impact of the embargo on each area’s local economy. Afterward, newspapers issued editorials calling for an end to the embargo.

In President Bush’s home state of Texas, the Cuba Policy Foundation played a key role in educating state leaders and getting both houses of the legislature to pass a unanimous resolution, which Governor Perry did not veto, asking President Bush to lift the embargo. The Cuba Policy Foundation had commissioned a key study showing the embargo is costing the Texas economy upwards of $600 million a year.

And in Washington, the Cuba Policy Foundation worked tirelessly to educate members of the Administration, the Congress and their staffs about the need to sell food and medicine to Cuba in the aftermath of Hurricane Michelle. President Bush allowed the sale of food and medicine to go through, marking the most significant U.S.-Cuba commerce in the embargo’s 40-year history.

As a sign of the Cuba Policy Foundation’s influence, the organization’s counterpart on the pro-embargo side, the Cuban American National Foundation, reversed its longstanding tradition of not debating anti-embargo organizations one-on-one. The Cuba Policy Foundation’s president, Ambassador Sally Grooms Cowal, has met CANF’s top Washington official in a series of debates across the country.

Click here to read the Cuba Policy Foundation brochure, and learn more about why CPF is America's number one force behind a common sense policy toward Cuba.