BBC News (2014) suggest that the embargo against Cuba is the US commercial sanction with the longest time in force. This sanction has had a great impact for the economy of Cuba and for the United States as well, although to a lesser extent. According to (the US Department of the State), it is currently estimated that remittances from the United States to Cuba an amount to nearly the two billion dollars, this action has the potential to alter the structure of the Cuban economy by changing the nature of foreign investment on the island, as well as its destination. A large percent of the population lives with money they receive from their relatives living in the United States. Agribusiness was also affected, there was a time when the United States
