The Cuban-American lobby is a general term for the various groups largely made up of Cuban exiles in the United States and their descendants who seek to influence the U.S. government over its policy toward Cuba.

Organizations

• Center for a Free Cuba
• Cuba Democracy Caucus
• Cuban American National Foundation
• Cuban Liberty Council
• US-Cuba Democracy PAC

Cuban Americans in the United States Congress

• Bob Menendez, Democrat, New Jersey

• Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Republican, Florida's 21st congressional district
• Mario Diaz-Balart, Republican, Florida's 25th congressional district
• Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Republican, Florida's 18th congressional district
• Albio Sires, Democrat, New Jersey's 13th congressional district

Cubans in public service with United States federal government

• Eduardo Aguirre, former United States Ambassador to Spain and Andorra [195421]
• Ana Carbonell, Chief of Staff for Representative Lincoln Diaz-Balart
• Adolfo A. Franco, former Assistant Administrator for United States Agency for International Development Latin America and the Caribbean [195422] (U.S. Agency for International Development)
• Emilio González, former United States Army colonel and former director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Service. [195423]
• Carlos Gutierrez, former Kellogg CEO and former United States Secretary of Commerce [195424]
• Nilda Pedrosa, Chief of Staff for Representative Mario Diaz-Balart and former Senior Policy Director for Senator Mel Martinez

Other politically active Cuban Americans

• Mauricio Claver-Carone, Washington Director of the Cuba Democracy PAC
• Gus Machado, Treasurer of the Cuba Democracy PAC
• Remedio Diaz Oliver
• Otto Reich, former senior official in the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. He held the position of Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs and US Special Envoy to the Western Hemisphere for the Secretary of State in the Bush administration.
• Armando F. Valladares, former Cuban prisoner for twenty-two years, American ambassador to the Human Rights Commission of the UN in Geneva during the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, and author of the book-testimonial Contra toda esperanza (Against All Hope) about his life in Cuban jails.

Politically active Cuban authors and academics

• Frank Calzón, Executive Director of Center for a Free Cuba [195425].
• Antonio de la Cova, academic [195426]
• Carlos Eire, T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University and author of Waiting for Snow in Havana
• Andy Garcia author, actor, producer, director
• Rafael Román Martel poet, journalist
• Enrique Ros, prolific author on historical topics

Spanish Media

• Ninoska Pérez Castellón, prominent Cuban radio and television talk show host
• Tomas Garcia Fuste, prominent Cuban radio and television talk show host

See also

• Cuban American
• Cuba-United States relations
• Diaspora politics in the United States
• Ethnic interest groups in the United States
• Lobbying in the United States
• Opposition to Fidel Castro
• Foreign policy interest group

External links

• Anti-Castro Politicians Frozen Out as U.S. Eases Island's Isolation by Daniel Dombey, Financial Times, June 3 2009