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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 ...
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 ...
The National Capitol of Cuba in Havana was built in 1929 and is said to be modeled on the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., 2014. The United States embargo against Cuba has prevented U.S. businesses from conducting trade or commerce with Cuban interests since 1958.
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is urging the FBI to open an “immediate” investigation into a U.S. anti-embargo group whose members recently met Cuban leader Miguel ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us.
After the opening of the island to world trade in 1818, trade agreements began to replace Spanish commercial connections. In 1820 Thomas Jefferson thought Cuba is "the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States" and told Secretary of War John C. Calhoun that the United States "ought, at the first possible opportunity, to take Cuba."
By 1952, U.S. companies were the largest foreign investors in Cuba, owning much of the land and resources. [10] The United States interest in Cuban land and resources continued to increase under Batista's rule, as 59% of exports went to, and 76% of the imports came from, the United States before 1959. [10]
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 ...
In Cuba, all eyes are on the U.S. presidential election. Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and Republican contender Donald Trump have said little about the Caribbean island nation, a longtime U.S ...