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Ros-Lehtinen played a prominent role in the Cuban-American lobby, which puts pressure on the Cuban government to bring about political change in Cuba. She was a member of the Congressional Cuba Democracy Caucus. Ros-Lehtinen also advanced strongly held views on Cuba, and lobbied against ending the United States embargo against that country. In ...
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]
A logistic regression model analyzed Congress members' attitudes towards two nearly identical pieces of pro-embargo legislation before and after receiving campaign funds from the Cuban–American lobby groups. Trevor Rubenzer found that pro-embargo PAC contributions had a statistically significant effect on Representatives' likelihood to adopt ...
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said in a speech before the assembly that what is often referred to as the U.S. trade embargo is a “blockade” because the web of laws and regulations ...
[137] [138] Cuba has been a member of the World Trade Organization since 1995. [139] The European Union is Cuba's largest trading partner, and the United States is the fifth-largest exporter to Cuba. [140] In 2012, the embargo limited U.S. imports to Cuba at 6.6%. [140]
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.
In addition to Cuba's concern over U.S. migration policy, the Cuban delegation assured the U.S. that normalization talks would not yield significant changes unless Cuba is removed from the U.S. State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism. Cuba was one of four countries on the list, the other three being Iran, Sudan, and Syria. The U ...
“This was a way actually to end the embargo.” Manuel Rocha, the former U.S. ambassador arrested in Miami earlier this month accused of being a covert agent for Cuba, had a reputation for being ...