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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.
The Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (Libertad) Act of 1996 (Helms–Burton Act), Pub. L. 104–114 (text), 110 Stat. 785, 22 U.S.C. §§ 6021–6091) is a United States federal law which strengthens and continues the United States embargo against Cuba.
The Cuban Assets Control Regulations, (CACR) 31 CFR 515, generally regulate relations between Cuba and the U.S. and are the main mechanism of domestic enforcement of the United States embargo against Cuba. [1] President Kennedy enacted the Cuban Assets Control Regulations on July 8, 1963. [1]
President John F. Kennedy widened the embargo in 1962 to include all Cuban trade, including food and medicine. Kennedy later imposed travel restrictions to Cuba after the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1963.
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 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 United States has imposed two-thirds of the world's sanctions since the 1990s. [1] In 2024, the Washington Post said that the United States imposed "three times as many sanctions as any other country or international body, targeting a third of all nations with some kind of financial penalty on people, properties or organizations". [2]
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 ...