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Tens of thousands of Cubans marched in front of the U.S. embassy in Havana on Friday to protest longstanding sanctions in the waning weeks of the Biden administration, and as the island's ...
The decadeslong U.S. embargo against Cuba makes it harder to export goods to the communist country, even though laws have been adjusted over time.
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 ...
The economic impact of the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba is comprehensive and impacts all sectors of the Cuban economy. [82] In its 2020 report to the United Nations, Cuba officially stated the U.S. embargo cost them $144 billion since its inception. [83] The U.S. government has had significantly higher estimates of the embargo's economic impact ...
The government blames the U.S. embargo, which it refers to as a "blockade", imposed since the arrival of the Communist Party to power but intensified in 2021 with Cuba's addition to the State Sponsors of Terrorism list. Cuba accused the U.S. of stirring up unrest, an accusation the United States has denied. [6] [7]
Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel continued blaming the U.S. and embargo he called "genocidal" for unprecedented protests, but also took some blame.
The internet in Cuba covers telecommunications in Cuba including the Cuban grassroots wireless community network and Internet censorship in Cuba. Since its introduction in the late 1990s, Cuban Internet has stalled because of lack of funding, [ 1 ] tight government restrictions, [ 2 ] and the U.S. embargo , especially the Torricelli Act .
The United States has piled dozens of new sanctions on the Communist-run country since a trade embargo was put in place following Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution, most recently under former ...