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Tracey Eaton was the Dallas Morning News bureau chief in Cuba from 2000 to early 2005. Before that, he headed the paper’s Mexico City bureau. Eaton, a former Fulbright scholar, has been a journalist and photographer since 1983. He has conducted journalism workshops in Guatemala, Bolivia and Nicaragua, and has been an invited speaker at conferences in Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica and Cuba. Eaton has been a staff writer at seven daily newspapers, including the Miami Herald. He was metropolitan editor at the Houston Chronicle before moving to Florida. He created a Cuba blog called Along the Malecón in 2008 and travels to Havana regularly. In 2010, Eaton received a Pulitzer Center grant to support his reporting in Cuba. He has been investigating U.S.-financed pro-democracy programs in Cuba.
Website: http://cubamoneyproject.org/
admin has written 130 articles so far, you can find them below.


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October roundup

The U.S. Agency for International Development awarded a three-year, $4.3 million Cuba grant to the New America Foundation. That triggered some mild controversy because the foundation also operates the U.S.-Cuba Policy Initiative, aimed at promoting engagement with Cuba. News of the grant surprised Anya Landau French, director of the U.S.-Cuba Policy Initiative. She wrote: What [...]

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State Department denies fee waiver

  This is the letter that the State Department sent me denying a fee waiver customarily granted to journalists. I appealed the denial. Download my letter in English and in Spanish. See fee waiver information sheet on the jump page.

October 13, 2012 0
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Project volunteer describes Cuba Money experiences

For the past two years, college student Karly Berezowsky has helped do research for the Cuba Money Project. She wrote letters as part of the project’s FOIA campaign and she added dozens of videos to the website’s YouTube channel. It has been great to have her help, but she graduates in December. I’ll be looking [...]

October 9, 2012 0
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September roundup

Democracy promotion programs in Cuba are aimed at encouraging the free flow of information and boosting civil society, not propping up the political opposition, the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development told the Miami Herald. Rajiv Shah told the Herald that while some of the Cuban government’s foes may benefit from USAID programs, [...]

October 6, 2012 0
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August roundup

On Aug. 3, the Center for Democracy in the Americas, or CDA, questioned the use of tax dollars to criticize the Catholic Church in Cuba. The non-profit group recalled a May 2012 Washington Post story about a Radio and TV Martí editorial that “called the archbishop of Havana a lackey who is colluding with an oppressive regime.” [...]

September 1, 2012 0
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July roundup

Cuban dissident leader Oswaldo Payá and activist Harold Cepero were killed in a car crash in eastern Cuba on July 22. They were traveling with two foreign supporters – Jens Aron Modig, 27, of Sweden, and Angel Carromero, 27, of Spain. Modig told Cuban authorities he traveled to the island to deliver 4,000 euros – [...]

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