Embargo Against Cuba stories:
Money affects Cuba policy
Nov 16th, 2009 - MiamiHerald
WASHINGTON -- Supporters of the U.S. embargo against Cuba have contributed almost $11 million to members of Congress since 2004 in a largely successful effort to block efforts to weaken sanctions against the island...
UN again condemns US embargo of Cuba
Oct 29th, 2009 - MiamiHerald
The United States found itself up against virtually the entire world Wednesday as country after country at the United Nations denounced the nearly 50-year-old trade embargo against Cuba...
un votes against us embargo on Cuba for 18th year
Oct 28th, 2009 - Reuters
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to urge the United States to lift a nearly half century-old economic embargo against Cuba, making its now ritual call amid some easing of U.S...
Venezuela's Chavez condemns US report on terrorism
May 1st, 2009 - Washington Post
CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chavez on Friday condemned a U.S. report that alleges Venezuela fails to cooperate in fighting terrorism and called on President Barack Obama to end the decades-long trade embargo against Cuba.
Castro Says Obama Misunderstood Raul Castro's Comments on Ties
Apr 22nd, 2009 - Bloomberg
April 22 (Bloomberg) -- Former Cuban President Fidel Castrosaid U.S. leader Barack Obama misunderstood comments last weekby Raul Castro, the current Cuban president, on improvingrelations between the communist island and the U.
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10:09US embargo against Cuba discussed in the General Assembly
United Nations, New York, 28 October 2009 - The General Assembly met today to discuss the necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba, and, as it has for the past eighteen years, adopted a similarly titled resolution ...
8:39The United States Embargo Against Cuba
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 of 1960 and strengthened to a near-total embargo in February of 1962 ...
1:28Postcard to U.S. President: Havana
People in Cuba send first wishes to new US President-elect Barack Obama. Among the reaction, Cubans said Obama's campaign vow to ease the 46-year-old US trade embargo against Cuba and his willingness to consider dialogue with ...
Embargo Against Cuba from WikiPedia:
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. It was enacted after Cuba expropriated the properties of United States citizens and corporations and it was strengthened to a near-total embargo in February 1962.
The embargo was codified into law in 1992 with the stated purpose of maintaining sanctions on the Castro regime so long as it continues to refuse to move toward "democratization and greater respect for human rights". It is entitled the Cuban Democracy Act. In 1996, Congress passed the Helms-Burton Act, which further restricted United States citizens from doing business in or with Cuba, and mandated restrictions on giving public or private assistance to any successor regime in Havana unless and until certain claims against the Cuban government are met. In 1999, U.S. President Bill Clinton expanded the trade embargo even further by ending the practice of foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies trading with Cuba. In 2000, Clinton authorized the sale of certain "humanitarian" US products to Cuba.
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