Cuba – United States relations

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…

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…

The development and ongoing conflict between the United States and Russia in the 20th century ushered in a new era of foreign policy propaganda tactics and a global battle between economic ideologies that greatly affected U.S relations with Central America. The culmination of infiltration of the F.B.I in the political process of multiple countries in Central America as well as the spread of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist revolutionary ideas among the people of these countries has greatly impacted what…

The United States of America and Cuba have not had relations with each other for over 50 years. Relations have been non existent, with an embargo placed on trade with Cuba, all since Fidel Castro took over Havana. Events such as the Bay of Pigs invasion led to strong tensions and distrust between the two countries. Hatred rose towards each other, and further advanced the separation of them. The embargo placed on Cuba was all in the hope of preventing a totalitarian government, and trying to make…

On December 17, 2014, President Obama delivered a statement on how his administration will normalize relations with Cuba. He said the earlier stance on Cuba is long “outdated” and “has failed to advance” the interests of the United States (Statement). For the last sixty years, the United States involvement with Cuba has been a grim one. In 1958, when Fidel Castro and his Cuban national rebels were fighting against the Cuban Fulgencio Batista regime, U.S. President Eisenhower imposed an arms…

the year 1960, Cuba decided to nationalize all US business in Cuba without compensating them. The United States quickly started imposing sanctions against Cuba, but the embargo did not become official until 1962. Capitalist United States wanted to change communist Cuba, but the sanctions, after more than 50 years, have not forced Cuba to transition away from communism. There has been many complications and changes over the years, and it has led to today with current United States President…

Washington Post editorial entitled Failure in Cuba the writer states…

for the American economy. In October of 1960, the United States put an embargo on trade with Cuba because of the actions from the new government put into place and controlled by Fidel Castro. Tensions with the country raised after they became allies with the communist Soviet Union, who at the time was an enemy of the United States (Cuba). The embargo is still in place today and it causes controversy over what should be done about relations with Cuba.…

past 2 years, America and Cuba have struck unprecedented ground in restoring relations. Having been at odds since 1961, many politicians believed the two countries would not restore ties any time soon. The tumultuous U.S.-Cuba relationship is rooted in the Cold War. Following the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. levied an economic and diplomatic embargo which would last for the next 54 years. As recently as December 2014, the United States and Cuba agreed to restore…

The United States and Cuba have had a very rocky relationship over the years. The United States in 1982 classified Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism. Today there are steps being taken to improve relations between the two countries. It would be beneficial talks so there can be a platform for equal trade among the United States and Cuba also the added political and economic growth of the countries. The United States and Cuba having better relations sets up a platform for equal trade…