Thursday June 21, 12:57 pm Eastern Time. Press Release.
SOURCE: Cuba Policy Foundation
MIAMI and TALLAHASSEE, Fla., June 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Next Thursday, June 28,
2001 marks the one-year anniversary of Elian Gonzalez's return to Cuba. On
Thursday, June 28, Cuban-American leaders from across the United States --
including Bay of Pigs veterans -- will be holding news conferences in Miami and
Tallahassee to speak out for an end to the U.S. embargo against Cuba, and for
lifting the U.S. travel ban to Cuba as the first step. Also speaking will be
Ambassador Sally Grooms Cowal, president of the Cuba Policy Foundation, who
housed Elian Gonzalez in Washington, D.C. in the weeks leading up to his return
to Cuba.
The Miami news conference will be at 9:30 am on Thursday, June 28 at the
Wyndham Miami Airport Hotel, 3900 NW 21st Street, adjacent to Miami
International Airport.
The Tallahassee news conference will be at 3:00 pm on Thursday, June 28 at
the Capitol Rotunda.
The Cuban American leaders and Ambassador Cowal will be speaking at both
news conferences.
The news conferences are sponsored by the Cuba Policy Foundation, a centrist
organization led by senior diplomats in Republican Administrations that strongly
supports democratic reform in Cuba. The Cuba Policy Foundation favors lifting
the embargo because the embargo has failed to produce change for 40 years, and
is hurting America's economic and national interests.
The president of the Cuba Policy Foundation, Ambassador Sally Grooms Cowal,
spent 23 years in the U.S. Foreign Service working mostly for Republican,
pro-embargo presidents, beginning with President Nixon. Ambassador Cowal was
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs under first
President Bush, who later appointed her U.S. Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago.
Ambassador Cowal is available for individual press interviews on any issue
related to U.S. policy toward Cuba.
Press contact: Steven Goldstein, 917-449-8918. | 
