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On May 15, 2002, former President Carter spoke in Havana, calling for an end to the embargo, saying "Our two nations have been trapped in a destructive state of belligerence for 42 years, and it is time for U.S. to change our relationship." The U.S. bishops called for an end to the embargo on Cuba, after Pope Benedict XVI's 2012 visit to the ...
The U.N. General Assembly called for the 31st time on the United States to end its decades-long trade embargo against Cuba as the communist-run island suffers its worst economic crisis in decades ...
Cuba has long demanded an end of the U.S. embargo that officials there say cuts off food, supplies, trade and other business. It is unclear how long this new status will last.
The U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday overwhelmingly called on the United States to end its decades-long sanctions regime on Cuba, as the communist-run Caribbean island nation suffers its worst ...
In announcing the agreement in December 2014, Castro struck a balance between praising the Marxist revolution that brought him and his brother Fidel to power almost 60 years prior and extolling the benefits that would be brought about by improved relations with the United States, namely the end of the Cuban embargo.
In July the United States suspended the purchase of 700,000 tons of sugar from Cuba, four days later the Soviet Union announced they would buy one million tons of Cuban sugar. In August the United States announced a total economic embargo on Cuba and threatened other Latin American and European nations with reprisals if they did not do the same ...
Cuba’s crisis is the result of the internal blockade enforced by the Cuban government on the Cuban people. Cuban American scholar Dr. Amalia Daché has said that “…lifting the embargo would ...
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyThe UN General Assembly just voted for the 30th consecutive year to condemn America’s economic embargo on Cuba. Yes, you read that ...