United States embargo against Cuba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The United States Embargo against Cuba (described in Cuba as el bloqueo , Spanish for "the blockade") is a commercial, economic, and financial embargo partially imposed on Cuba in October 1960 and...
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Articles server (archives) is temporarily unavailable due to scheduled maintenance. Please come again! ... To visit the LA Times current news site, visit www.latimes.com ... Los Angeles Times...
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articles.latimes.com/2009/apr/14/business/fi-cuba-impac...
articles.latimes.com/2009/apr/14/business/fi-cuba-impact14
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Using trade as a weapon of foreign policy has harmed America's economic interests in the world without advancing national security. ... "The US Embargo of Cuba Is a Failure," by Daniel Griswold, Guardian (Online), June 15, 2009 ... "The Cuban Economic Embargo: Time for a New Approach?," February 15, 2000 [Policy Forum]
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www.cato.org/trade-foreign-policy
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Indeed, Cuba is the one country in the hemisphere against which the U.S. government has persistently and actively used a full economic embargo as its main policy tool in an attempt to compel a democratic transformation. ... The Cuban Economic Embargo: Time for a New Approach? ... It's Time, Finally, to End the Cuban Embargo...
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www.freetrade.org/issues/cuba.html
www.freetrade.org/issues/cuba.html
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The embargo was justified in 1961, by Fidel Castro's aggressive alliance with the Soviet Union. ... The Cuban Embargo has now been in place for almost four decades, but Cuba has barely budged from it's socialist, one party state lobby. The citizens of Cuba remain politically and economically repressed with no immediate hope...
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www.freetrade.org/pubs/speeches/cf-021500.html
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The Economic Embargo -A Timeline ... 1997....November 5. For the sixth straight year, the U.N. General Assembly passes a resolution to end the Cuban embargo. The vote is 143 to 3.
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www.cubatravelusa.com/history_of_cuban_embargo1.htm
www.cubatravelusa.com/history_of_cuban_embargo1.htm
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Fidel Castro blames the U.S. trade embargo for the collapse of the Cuban economy. The truth, however, is that Cuba's economic destruction was caused by the regime's ruinous economic policies.
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www.heritage.org/Research/TradeandForeignAid/BG1010.cfm
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Now that the "democracy defense" of the Cuban embargo has been exposed as a farce, what is left to defenders of the status quo policy? Cuba remains a communist nation, defying free trade laws, the trend toward global capitalism, and the U.S. corporate appetite for profit.
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www.yaleherald.com/archive/xxvii/1999.01.22/opinion/p10...
www.yaleherald.com/archive/xxvii/1999.01.22/opinion/p10remer.html
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A one-stop shop for the latest political happenings at any hour of the day. ... In a newspaper column, Castro says Obama's plan to maintain the trade embargo "can be translated as a formula for hunger for the country." ... However, the former Cuban leader does call Obama "the most advanced candidate in the presidential race."
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thepage.time.com/2008/05/26/fidel-castro-criticizes-oba...
thepage.time.com/2008/05/26/fidel-castro-criticizes-obama-on-cuban-embargo/
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