Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Miami's Little Havana, the event was treated as a holiday. A thanksgiving Mass was held in Coconut Grove, and scores of jubilant Cuban Americans phoned radio stations to express their approval. On the 83rd anniversary of Cuba's independence, Radio Marti, a U.S.-sponsored anti-Castro radio service, kicked off its inaugural broadcast at 1180 on the AM dial with a short salutation, "Buenos dias, Cuba," followed by a gentle folk song...
...Problem: the specter of "another Cuba" in Nicaragua. Cause: the Sandinista regime. Solution: bring down that regime by backing the contras...
Embargoes frequently fail because other countries provide markets and supplies. Japan, Canada and Spain have become Cuba's major non-Communist trading partners. When President Carter imposed sanctions on grain sales to the Soviet Union following the invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, Moscow simply found new suppliers, principally Argentina. The U.S. had tried to prevent the sale of oil- and gas-pipeline equipment to the Soviets to express its disapproval of Soviet involvement when martial law was imposed in Poland in late 1981, but Washington backed off when its European allies raised angry protests. The U.S. also imposed a variety...
...situation most similar to Nicaragua's is that of Fidel Castro's Cuba. Some U.S. officials argue that the Cuban embargo continues to be effective because it hampers Havana's ability to earn hard currency and thus raises the Soviet Union's costs of supporting the island country. Because about 85% of Cuba's trade is with the Soviets and its East bloc allies, transportation costs are high. The U.S. embargo has also forced the Cubans to devote much of their light and heavy industry to manufacturing spare parts for their U.S.-built transportation systems and factories. Indeed, Assistant Secretary...
There are some differences between Nicaragua and Cuba, to be sure. Nicaragua (pop. 3 million) is smaller than Cuba (pop. 10 million) and has fewer resources and is a less developed economy. Unlike Cuba, Nicaragua still has a large private sector (at least 60% of its economy), which is likely to be severely hurt by the U.S. embargo. That is one reason, warns Mesa-Lago, why sanctions may serve to rally some Nicaraguans around the very government that Washington finds so repugnant...