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• End the Embargo of Cuba.
• You may have heard that the US has an embargo in place against Cuba. ... Congress has passed a bill that makes the embargo even stronger, and imposes sanctions against any country that trades with Cuba. ...
• A embargo is something that we normally do in times of war. Sometimes we use an embargo against a country whose misconduct has been condemned by the international community, but that is not the case with Cuba. ...
• Unfortunately, I have not been able to get even a plausible answer to why we have an embargo against Cuba. ... After all, a major sponsor of the bills to make the embargo stronger is Jesse Helms, the (wacko) senator from North Carolina (a state whose economy is dependent on tobacco). ... Here are some reasons we should end the embargo with Cuba. ... The United Nations has condemned the US embargo against Cuba. ... The embargo makes us look like a meddling imperialist bully of the worst kind. ... The effect of the embargo has been to make the Cuban people hate our government, not their government. ...
• If the majority of Americans tell them that they think the embargo is wrong, then the politicians will listen. ...
• People have sent me letters about the embargo (both for and against), some of which I have included here. ...
• Here is a piece of email from someone who thinks that Clinton will end the embargo. ...
• Here is email from someone who wants the embargo strengthened, not lifted. ...
• How do people in other countries view the US embargo against Cuba? Here are some letters from people in Canada, Puerto Rico, and the UK who have visited Cuba. ...

• Embargo .
• US Embargo towards Cuba.
• Embargo?, What Embargo? The Castro's blockade of Cuban citizens ? - Yes, get rid of it. ...
• The US embargo towards Cuba is easy to remove, only 3 events must occur: .
• The US embargo of Cuba is directed at its communist system and its supporters. ...
• The partial embargo only manages to limit the spread of communism, to change the current system, it is necessary to denounce and confront it. ...
• The embargo has been most effective in the last few years due to the end of Russia's aid to Cuba. ...
• The embargo is not responsible for the hardships of Cuba's citizens and this is understood by the majority of Cubans. ...
• The US embargo towards Cuba accounts for only 10 to 14 percent of the worlds total economy. ...
• The embargo directed towards South Africa was a world wide blockade, just like the blockade directed towards Iraq oil supplies.   Nelson Mandela is currently in power due to the effectiveness of the embargo which forced a change in his country .

• Associazione per i Popoli Minacciati mette in guardia: no alla sospensione dell'embargo per le armi alla Cina!.
• In vista del vertice di Bruxelles, l'Associazione per i Popoli Minacciati (APM) ha lanciato un appello urgente affinché non sia sospeso l'embargo di armi dell'UE contro la Cina. ... Le violazioni dei diritti umani in Cina colpiscono sia per la quantità sia per la "qualità" con cui vengono commesse, tant'è che la sospensione dell'embargo non può essere motivata con il miglioramento del rispetto dei diritti umani. ... Ciononostante la scorsa settimana il presidente francese ha sottolineato di aspettarsi dal vertice la revoca dell'embargo nei confronti della Cina. ... Poiché i ministri dell'estero europei temono una forte critica dell'opinione pubblica sulla revoca dell'embargo di armi, essi minimizzano la revoca rifacendosi al Codice di comportamento dell'UE per l'esportazione di armi del 1998. ... Francia e Gran Bretagna inoltre hanno adottato un'interpretazione molto libera dell'embargo alla Cina per cui stanno già esportando armi in Cina. ...

• Home » afp » EU parliament resists end to arms embargo against China Services.
• EU parliament resists end to arms embargo against China.
• The European Parliament demanded Thursday the EU maintain its arms embargo against China because of the communist country's human rights record and its "threats against Taiwan". ...
• The European Union assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution that rejected talk of lifting the embargo -- in place since the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989 -- as promoted by EU leaders and China itself. ...
• The parliament -- which traditionally takes a strong line on human rights -- also said that it believed "it is the wrong time, in view of Chinese threats against Taiwan, to open the way to a lifting of the European arms embargo". ...
• At summit talks, EU heads of government last Friday said it was time "to re-examine the question of the embargo on the sale of arms to China". ...
• France and Germany have called for the embargo to be lifted, while Britain says ending the ban would be largely symbolic. ...
• China Thursday kept up the pressure, saying the EU embargo "does not conform with the good momentum in the development of relations between China and Europe". ...
• "We hope that the EU can at an early date adopt measures to eliminate this embargo," foreign ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said. ...
• The European Commission -- the EU's executive arm -- has given out contradictory signals on its stance on the embargo. ...
• The commission itself would not have a say in lifting the arms embargo, which would have to be decided by all 15 EU member states. ...
• Stories  China may seek redress at WTO in fibre row with EU  France seeks to reassure as EU mulls China arms ban  Lifting EU arms ban on China won't lead to sales: Chirac  Britain cooling on move to end EU arms embargo on China: analysts  China says linking anti-secession law to lifting EU arms ban 'unreasonable'   .

• English > News & Analysis > Articles > The Effects of the US ’Embargo’ Against Cuba <- YOU ARE HERE .
• The Effects of the US ’Embargo’ Against Cuba.
• embargo against Cuba is condemned by an ever larger and by now overwhelming majority of member-states of the United Nations General Assembly. ...
• The purpose of this expose is to denounce this embargo in the strongest terms for the violation of law it represents, and for its total lack of legitimacy. ...
• Countries against the embargo lifting.
• Imposed since 1962, the US embargo has been reinforced in October 1992 by the Cuban Democracy Act (or "Torricelli Law"), which aimed to restrain the development of the Cuban economy’s new driving forces the by hitting the inflow of funds and goods by : i) the strict limitations of the transfers of foreign currencies by the families in exile, ii) the six-months ban to enter U. ... The embargo was systematized by the Cuban Liberty and Democracy Solidarity Act ("Helms Burton Law") of March 1996, aimed to harden the "international" sanctions against Cuba. ...
• The normative content of this embargo -specially the extraterritoriality of its rules, which intend to impose on the international community unilateral sanctions by the United States, or the denial of the right of nationalization, through the concept of "traffic"- is a violation of the spirit and letter of the United Nations Charter and of the Organization of American States, and of the very fundamentals of international law. ... This embargo is moreover illegitimate and immoral because it attacks the social benefits realized by Cuba since years and imperils their successes -recognized by many international independent observers (in particular those of the WHO, UNESCO, UNICEF and many NGO). ... nationals and for foreigners extends the practical impact of the embargo to domains completely or partially excluded from the texts, such as food, medicines or medical equipment and exchanges of scientific information.
• The harmful economic effects of the embargo.
• embargo since its institution would exceed 70 billion dollars. ...
• If it affects negatively all the sectors , the embargo directly impedes -besides the exportations- the driving forces of the Cuban economic recovery, at the top of which are tourism, foreign direct investments (FDI) and currency transfers. ... In Cuba, the embargo penalizes the activities of the bank and finance, insurance, petrol, chemical products, construction, infrastructures and transports, shipyard, agriculture and fishing, electronics and computing. ...
• The harmful social effects of the embargo.
• government’s announcements intimating that it would be favourable to the relaxation of the restrictions concerning foodstuffs and medicines went unheeded and cannot hide that Cuba has been the victim of a de facto embargo in these domains. ... A humanitarian tragedy -which seems to be the implicit objective of the embargo- has been avoided only thanks to the will of the Cuban state to maintain at all costs the pillars of its social model, which guarantees to everyone, among others, a staple food for a modest price and a free consumption in the crèches, schools, hospitals, and homes for the elderly. ... However, the continuation of the social progress in Cuba is impaired by the effective extension of the embargo.

• The Economic Embargo - A Timeline.
• The plan includes: a) the termination of sugar purchases b) the end of oil deliveries c) continuation of the arms embargo in effect since mid-1958 d) the organization of a paramilitary force of Cuban exiles to invade the island.
• imposes a partial economic embargo on Cuba that excludes food and medicine.
• President Kennedy expands the Cuban embargo to include imports of all goods made from or containing Cuban materials, even if made in other countries. ...
• President Kennedy asks French journalist Jean Daniel to tell Castro that he is now ready to negotiate normal relations and drop the embargo. According to former Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, "If Kennedy had lived I am confident that he would have negotiated that agreement and dropped the embargo because he was upset with the way the Soviet Union was playing a strong role in Cuba and Latin America…".
• administration announces a tightening of the embargo.
• The United Nations general assembly recommends an end to the embargo (for the fourth consecutive year) by a vote of 117 to 3 (38 abstentions). ... Since then, each time the vote comes up at the UN, the number of nations voting against the embargo increases.
• end the embargo against Cuba.
• General Assembly passes a resolution to end the Cuban embargo. ...
• embargo on Cuba. The vote is 157 to end the embargo and 2 (U. ...
• -imposed embargo. ...
• The coalition of Americans for Humanitarian Trade With Cuba join the United States Association of Former Members of Congress to call on the Clinton administration to end the embargo on food and medicines to Cuba. ... embargo on Cuba is the single most restrictive policy of its kind. ...

• UF AND CUBAN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMISTS DISCUSS IMPACT OF LIFTING CUBAN TRADE EMBARGO AT MARCH 31 WASHINGTON, D. ...
• embargo against Cuba is lifted, say University of Florida agricultural economists who have been studying the issue for more than four years. ...
• Messina heads a team of UF researchers who have been working with faculty at the University of Havana's Center for Research on the International Economy since 1994 to study the agricultural and fisheries sectors in Cuba and assess the potential impact that lifting the embargo may have on Florida, United States and Cuban agriculture. ...
• "It's important to point out that our research on the Cuban agricultural sector does not address the politics of lifting the embargo," Messina said. "The embargo has been in place since 1960, and no one knows if it will be lifted, but we need to get a handle on what's going on in Cuba's agricultural sector. ...
• "After the devastating effects that NAFTA and the devaluation of the Mexican peso have had on segments of Florida agriculture, we must be prepared for the challenges and opportunities that will come with the end of the embargo, whenever that may be," he said. ...
• "Cuba's sugar export quota before the 1960 embargo was about twice the size of the entire U. ...

• Let's end the embargo and have free trade with Cuba. There is no military reason for the trade embargo. ... The embargo violates the liberty of U. ... Politics, not justice, is the real reason for the embargo. ...
• However, if the courts were doing their job properly, they would uphold a challenge to the embargo as violating the Constitutional rights of U. ... citizens, not government authorities, decide if the embargo is just. ...
• government then enacted an embargo on trade and investment in Cuba, which has continued for 35 years. Under the 1996 Helms-Burton Act, passed after two airplanes flown by anti-Castro activists were shot down in Cuba, the embargo may not be lifted without the approval of Congress, and Clinton's liberalization may be challenged as violating that Act. ...
• Chamber of Commerce favors lifting the embargo. ... The rationale for the embargo that it pushes Cuba towards democracy is contradicted by the U. ... The real reason for the embargo is the strong anti-Castro lobby in Congress. ... Courts and the lack of a proper jury system that maintains the unwise, counter-productive, and long obsolete embargo on investment, travel, and trade with Cuba. ...

• Arms Embargo Failing.
• (New York, November 5, 2001) The United Nations Security Council must enforce the international arms embargo on Liberia, Human Rights Watch said today.
• Neglected Arms Embargo on Sierra Leone Rebels .
• The Liberia arms embargo was first imposed in 1992 and tightened in March 2001 to curb arms trafficking via Liberia to the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels in Sierra Leone, who are also subject to a U. ... embargo. ...
• (See, for example, Human Rights Watch, "Neglected Arms Embargo on Sierra Leonean Rebels," http://www. ...
• It further urged the Security Council to authorize UNAMSIL peacekeepers in Sierra Leone to monitor and enforce the arms embargo in force on the RUF there, especially in Kailahun district, and make public the information it collects. ... unit to monitor and report on arms embargo violations. ...

• Russia broke UN embargo to arm Serbs.
• Russia supplied surface to air missile equipment to Serbia before the start of the Nato bombing campaign when a United Nations arms embargo was in force, defence experts claimed today. ...
• But Russia has categorically denied supplying weapons to the Serb regime in contravention of the UN embargo. ...

• CUBAN EMBARGO OPPOSED BY .
• embargo of Cuba. ...
• Citing the embargo’s failure to produce reform in Cuba and the embargo’s negative impact on the United States, Senator Paul Simon (D-IL 1985-1997), who spearheaded the letter initiative, said, “Our policy makes no sense. ...
• foreign policy establishment opposes the embargo of Cuba,” she added.

• America's Embargo of Cuba: What Result After 35 Years? Howard LaFranchi, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor HAVANA - In an outdoor market in Old Havana, artisan Osmani Diafuente pronounces an often-heard judgment of the United States economic embargo of Cuba. "Everything is the fault of the Americans: It's the embargo, the embargo, we're told. ... "The effect of the embargo is not what you see, it's what you don't see," he says. ... What the embargo does is make everything for us more expensive, more difficult. " Cuba will take its case against the embargo to the United Nations next week, when Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina is expected to ask the General Assembly to condemn the measure for the sixth year in a row. Calculating the cost of every last ramification - for example, the extra fuel cost Cubana Airlines faces for being prohibited from flying over US territory - Cuba will tell the UN that the 35-year-old embargo has cost the island $60 billion. ... In fact many Cubans argue that by giving Cuban President Fidel Castro an excuse for all of Cuba's woes, the embargo has actually prolonged unnaturally the life of a regime whose political and economic cousins have largely disappeared. ...
• What is the embargo? The Cuban Assets Control Regulations, under the Trading with the Enemy Act, covers every aspect of economic exchange with Cuba from imports and exports to gifts, travel, and humanitarian aid. According to the US Treasury Department, charged with the embargo's enforcement, the law was a response to "certain hostile actions by the Cuban government. ... " But over the decades as the embargo has not had its intended effect, the sanctions have been toughened - most recently by the "Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act of 1996," more commonly known as the Helms-Burton law. ...
• What's its impact? The embargo helped push Cuba into the orbit of the Soviet Union, from which the Caribbean island received as much as $6 billion in annual subsidies before the communist collapse. Since 1991, the embargo has contributed to Cuba's economic difficulties as the Communist regime has attempted to enter the global market. ... "We now have to go thousands of miles to sell products that without the embargo could be selling just 100 miles away," says Mr. ... US tourists, who came to a hopping Havana in droves before the revolution, are prohibited by the embargo from traveling here. (Although Americans are breaking the embargo in increasing numbers, traveling via Canada and Mexico. ) And the embargo also denies Cuba access to favorable international credits through international financial institutions. ...

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