Economic Sanctions As an Instrument of U.s. Foreign Policy: The Case of the U.s. Embargo Against Cuba
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Cuba recently took a dozen children with heart defects to the U.N. to complain about the U.S. embargo, but the rhetoric around the embargo is often not the same as the more complicated reality.
MSNBC.com: U.S. Life (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Cuba recently took a dozen children with heart defects to the U.N. to complain about the U.S. embargo, but the rhetoric around the embargo is often not the same as the more complicated reality.
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
HAVANA - It was a story meant to captivate the United Nations: A dozen Cuban children with heart defects were forced to endure unnecessary surgery because the U.S. embargo...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
It was a story meant to captivate the United Nations: A dozen Cuban children with heart defects were forced to endure unnecessary surgery because the U.S. embargo blocked them from receiving American-made catheters.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
HAVANA -- It was a story meant to captivate the United Nations: A dozen Cuban children with heart defects were forced to endure unnecessary surgery because the U.S. embargo blocked them from receiving American-made catheters.
L.A. Times - Latin America Blog (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... the government has jailed scores of dissidents, protesters and others in recent years. For the U.S., the persistent question is whether to lift its 47-year-old embargo on travel and trade with Cuba. The embargo remains even as President Obama has eased some rules on travel and money transfers for Cuban Americans. An editorial in today’s Los Angeles Times calls for the...
Cuba (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Today, Nick Miroff of Global Post explored the question that has many following US-Cuba policy worried: who will benefit if the US lifts travel restrictions to Cuba—the Cuban government or ordinary Cubans? Two anecdotal pieces of evidence put him on the side of those that believe the travel ban should be lifted because it would [...]
FP Passport (Free subscription) | yesterday
In a St. Petersburg Times op-ed today, Sen. John Kerry criticizes the U.S. embargo on Cuba, saying it has "manifestly failed for over 50 years" and announces his support for a bil that would lift the ban on U.S. citizens traveling to Cuba: I am announcing my support for the Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act. Nowhere else in the world are Americans forbidden by their own...
Samson Blinded (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... areas—included a 40 percent Arab population, leaving no hope of Jewish statehood. Add the US embargo on arms sales, the British aid to Arabs, and the Russian sales of outdated firearms specifically to keep the war going and dissuade the Jews from capitulating. The UN intended the State of Israel to become the final Auschwitz. The Arabs, rather rationally, always viewed the Christian-dominated...
Cuba (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
A second round of migration talks, slated to take place in Havana this month, has been pushed back to February, drawing out what has already been a slow process of re-engagement between the United States and Cuba. The U.S. State Department claims that the delay was “at the Cuban government’s request.” Meanwhile, a senior Cuban [...]
BrandFaqs: The Brand Blog (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
... the official daily of the Cuban Communist Party's youth organisation said Thursday. The US-based information provider has also blocked Cubans' access to Google Earth, Google Desktop Search, Google Code, Google Toolbar and Chrome, Juventud Rebelde said. "It appears that for Google, which, according to its creators has the goal of making possible mass access to information, we Cubans do not...
