Center for American Progress, 10, 40, 42, 52, 62, 64, 66–67

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), 40, 42, 45–46, 54, 66

Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), 125

Chamorro, Violeta, 25

Charles, Eugina, 24

Chávez, Hugo, 10, 29, 34, 43, 48, 51, 54–55, 101, 103–104, 106, 118, 122, 136, 141, 151

China, 55, 76, 78–79, 114, 157, 174

Church, Frank, 22

civil society, 46, 50, 82, 87, 152, 154, 164

climate change, 57, 156, 165

Clinton, President Bill, 5, 39–41, 49, 54, 86, 154, 160

Clinton, Hillary, 54, 151, 160

Cold War, 2, 17, 26, 32, 49, 68, 73–74, 80, 90, 104–106, 113, 131

Colom, Alvaro, 31

Colombia, 6, 8, 18, 20, 24, 34, 48, 54–56, 67, 85, 93, 95, 130, 151, 170

Colonialism, 32

Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba, 86, 132

Common Position, 152

Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), 3, 92–93, 96

Contadora Mediation Group, 24

Correa, Rafael, 30, 50, 151

Council on Hemispheric Affairs, 41, 127

Cuban Communist Party, 173

Cuban Democracy Act, 28

Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act, 28

Cuban Revolution, 1, 11, 16–18, 20–21, 26, 77, 80, 83, 90, 103, 106, 120, 123, 133, 169, 173

Cuban-Venezuelan alliance, 125, 127, 129

Cuban-American lobby, 76, 86–88, 95

Declaration of Santiago, 19

Democratic Action (Acción Democrática, or AD), 108

democratic transition, 6, 50, 152, 154

Dominica, 3, 24, 81, 116, 114

Dominican Republic, 82, 125

drug trafficking, 56–57, 151, 165

drug war, 7

Ecuador, 3, 6, 30, 32, 49–51, 61, 66, 81, 116, 127, 130, 151

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 16

Embargo, 6, 18, 28, 24, 49, 54, 57, 67, 73–74, 76, 79–80, 83, 86, 89, 122, 152, 127–173

European Commission, 80

European Community (EC), 125

European Union, 76, 78, 92, 119, 125, 130, 146, 152

Falklands/Malvinas Crisis, 26

Fernández, Cristina, 126

Fifth Republic Movement (Movimiento Quinta República, or MVR), 48, 108

FMLN (Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front), 31

Ford administration, Gerald, 22

Fourth Fleet, 6, 151