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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 ...
Between 1954 and 1959, trade between Cuba and the U.S. was at a higher level than what it was in 2003, according to a BA dissertation submitted to the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, with 65% of Cuba's total exports sent to the U.S. while American imports totaled 74% percent of Cuba's international purchases.
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 ...
Our sanctions have impeded U.S.-Cuba cooperation on important issues, infringed on the right of Americans to travel, and prevented U.S. agriculture, construction, biotechnology and other companies ...
Obama's visit to Cuba was the first by an American president in more than 80 years. Beginning in 2013, Cuban and U.S. officials held secret talks brokered in part by Pope Francis and hosted in Canada and Vatican City [ 88 ] [ 89 ] [ 90 ] to start the process of restoring diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States.
President Obama arrived in Cuba for a three-day visit on March 20, 2016. [87] Obama headed a delegation of between 800 and 1,200, including businesspeople and congressional leaders who had helped in establishing the 2014 normalization deal. [88] Obama was the first sitting U.S. president to visit Cuba since Calvin Coolidge in 1928. [88]
Cuba-U.S. relations remain a hot-button political issue for the right as well, particularly in the swing state Florida where many Cuban-Americans strongly back strict sanctions on the country.
President Obama's three-day visit to Cuba, in March, 2016, marked the first visit by a U.S. president since 1928. On the island, anti-government demonstrations in anticipation of President Obama's visit and of the new U.S. liberalization of travel were met with oppressive reprisals from the Castro regime. [9] [10] [11]