United States embargo against Cuba

Cuba has been banned from trading with the United States for over half a century ago. This economic embargo has devastated Cuba, beginning since the early 1960’s. Several United States presidents have had different takes on the matter, some loosening the embargo whilst some making it more restricting. However, 55 years after, President Barack Obama has released an official statement, noting that, the US will normalize diplomatic relations with Cuba. It is therefore necessary to consider the…

Keyword focus: Trinidad Cuba, Varadero Beach, Baracoa Cuba Not Just Havana: Off The Beaten Path Cuba Now that Cuba is officially open for tourism, travelers are beginning to flock to the country from the United States in record numbers. While many travelers are going to and staying in Havana exclusively, Cuba offers much more to intrepid travelers than this famous city. Everyone wants to see Cuba before it changes - but it's already changing, for better and worse like everywhere else under the…

The United States has a complicated relationship with Cuba. While our close land to Cuba makes the island nation a good trading partner, the hold the Castros have had on Cuba has stopped any chances of trade between our two countries.An embargo is when a country stops all trade travel and commerce with another country. The two countries can't trade travel or commercial their products in the other country.The U.S. International Trade Commission estimates U.S. banks lose between $684 million and…

When Fidel Castro took control of Cuba he needed to adopt an ideology that would unite a people and a country, and place him in the role of sole leader and head of Cuba. While it is his millitant actions that gave him power, it was his adoption of communism which has kept Castro in power for so long. There have been many goverment’s overthrown in Latin America, but few if any coups have had the impact on world affairs than Castro coming into power in Cuba did. By bringing communism to the…

The articles in question Enver M. Casimir’s “Contours of Transnational Contact: Kid Chocolate, Cuba, and the United States in the 1920’s and 1930’s”, Louis Peréz jr., “Approaching Change and Changelessness in the Historiography of Cuba”, and Lars Schoultz’s “Benevolent Domination: The Ideology of U.S. Policy toward Cuba’, all share and discuss a long complicated history of Cuban relations and, images of U.S. perceptions of Cubans and how those images and relationships translate into Cuban…

Project: Conducting Business in Cuba There are several things that a business should consider before doing business with Cuba. Do your research before investing in Cuba because it is illegal for most U.S. companies to expand their operations into Cuba due to the trade embargo that was put in place in 1962 and is still in effect today. Another issue that could pose a problem is the American-Cuba treaty of 1903 that forbids private enterprise. Language barriers are something else to think about…

Cubans. Obama’s Jan. 12 announcement ended the so-called "wet foot-dry foot" policy that had allowed Cubans without visas who reached U.S. shores (typically Florida) to gain automatic entry to the United States to ask for political asylum. Under the policy, those caught at sea, however, were sent back to Cuba. The policy was started in 1995 under President Bill Clinton in an effort to end the rafter crisis and had a major impact in shaping immigrant-rich Miami-Dade County. Obama also…

The United States gives migrants from Cuba special treatment that no other group of refugees or immigrants receives. It begins with the so-called “wet-foot, dry-foot policy” that puts Cubans who reach U.S. soil on a fast track to permanent residency. The government initiated the policy in 1995 as an amendment to the1966 Cuban Adjustment Act that Congress passed when Cold War tensions ran high between the U.S. and the island nation. Under the amendment, when a Cuban migrant is apprehended in…

current state of Cuba, and especially its future. As a country that played a large role in bringing two superpowers to the brink of World War III, Cuba has evolved from being a vacation hotspot for United States citizens, to a prominent symbol of a leftist, socialist government within the Western Hemisphere. (Silverman, p. 314) The evolution and radical change that has left us with the modern Cuba we now begs us to look further and beyond the path that has led it to this ongoing state. One…

The United States and Cuba have had a history marred by conflicts, but is this justification for the U.S to isolate Cuba? The Cuban embargo was designed to destroy Cuba’s post-revolutionary government, yet the Castro regime is still in power and both the American and Cuban governments have been damaged; therefore, Congress should lift the Cuban embargo. The United States and Cuba were once strong trade partners who relied on one another. By the late 1800s, the United States was purchasing…