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Mary McCarthy Gomez Cueto (April 27, 1900 – April 3, 2009) was the widow of a wealthy Cuban businessman who died in poverty, unwilling to leave the island and unable to access her funds because of the US embargo on trade with Cuba. [1]
According to 2009 article in the Inter-American Law Review, the Cuban government's nationalization of U.S. owned property is the “largest uncompensated taking of American property by a foreign government in history.” [19] Assets seized, included vacation homes and bank accounts of wealthy individuals, but most seized property was owned by ...
Referred to by Cuba as "el bloqueo" (the blockade), [59] the US embargo on Cuba remains as of 2022 one of the longest-standing embargoes in modern history. [60] Few of the United States' allies embraced the embargo, and many have argued it has been ineffective in changing Cuban government behavior. [ 61 ]
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 ...
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 1997, the American Association for World Health stated the US embargo against Cuba contributed to malnutrition, poor water access, and lack of access to medicine and other medical supplies; it concluded "a humanitarian catastrophe has been averted only because the Cuban government has maintained a high level of budgetary support for a health ...
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 ...
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