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A n n e x e 2 Cuban Democracy Act of 1992 22 USC §600 et suivants (1992) TITLE XVII – CUBAN DEMOCRACY ACT OF 1992 SEC. 1701. SHORT TITLE. This title may be cited as the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992. SEC. 1702. FINDINGS. The Congress makes the following findings : 1. The government of Fidel Castro has demonstrated consistent disregard for internationally accepted standards of human rights and for democratic values. It restricts the Cuban people’s exercise of freedom of speech, press, assembly, and other rights recognized by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 10, 1948. It has refused to admit into Cuba the representative of the United Nations Human Rights Commission appointed to investigate human rights violations on the island. 2. The Cuban people have demonstrated their yearning for freedom and their increasing opposition to the Castro government by risking their lives in organizing independent, democratic activities on the island and by undertaking hazardous flights for freedom to the United States and other countries. 3. The Castro government maintains a military-dominated economy that has decreased the well-being of the Cuban people in order to enable the government to engage in military interventions and subversive activities throughout the world and, especially in the Western Hemisphere. These have included involvement in narcotics trafficking and support for the FMLN guerrillas in El Salvador. 4. There is no sign that the Castro regime is prepared to make any significant concessions to democracy or to undertake any form of democratic opening. Efforts to suppress dissent through intimidation, imprisonment, and exile have accelerated since the political changes that have occurred in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. 5. Events in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe have dramatically reduced Cuba’s external support and threaten Cuba’s food and oil supplies. 258 États-Unis/Cuba 6. The fall of communism in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the now universal recognition in Latin America and the Caribbean that Cuba provides a failed model of government and development, and the evident inability of Cuba’s economy to survive current trends, provide the United States and the international democratic community with an unprecedented opportunity to promote a peaceful transition to democracy in Cuba. 7. However, Castro’s intransigence increases the likelihood that there could be a collapse of the Cuban economy, social upheaval, or widespread suffering.The recently concluded Cuban Communist Party Congress has underscored Castro’s unwillingness to respond positively to increasing pressures for reform either from within the party or without. 8. The United States cooperated with its European and other allies to assist the difficult transitions from Communist regimes in Eastern Europe. Therefore, it is appropriate for those allies to cooperate with United States policy to promote a peaceful transition in Cuba. SEC. 1703. STATEMENT OF POLICY. It should be the policy of the United States – 1. to seek a peaceful transition to democracy and a resumption of economic growth in Cuba through the careful application of sanctions directed at the Castro government and support for the Cuban people ; 2. to seek the cooperation of other democratic countries in this policy ; 3. to make clear to other countries that, in determining its relations with them, the United States will take into account their willingness to cooperate in such a policy ; 4. to seek the speedy termination of any remaining military or technical assistance, subsidies , or other forms of assistance to the Government of Cuba from any of the independent states of the former Soviet Union ; 5. to continue vigorously to oppose the human rights violations of the Castro regime ; 6. to maintain sanctions on the Castro regime so long as it continues to refuse to move toward democratization and greater respect for human rights ; 7. to be prepared to reduce the sanctions in carefully calibrated ways in response to positive developments in Cuba ; 8. to encourage free and fair elections to determine Cuba’s political future ; 9. to request the speedy termination of any military or technical assistance, subsidies, or other forms of assistance to the Government of Cuba from the government of any other country ; and 10. to initiate immediately the development of a comprehensive United States policy toward Cuba in a post-Castro era. SEC. 1704. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION. a. Cuban Trading Partners – The President should encourage the governments of countries that conduct trade with Cuba to restrict their trade and credit relations...

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