Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Albert can also pick up communications from Cuba and from Soviet satellites. Unlike ground radar, the balloons can also detect cruise missiles coming from the south. It would, however, take 20 Fat Alberts to cover the southern border completely...
...that an emergency had indeed arisen from Nicaragua's "aggressive activities in Central America." It laid out a litany of accusations to back up the contention. Among them: "Nicaragua's continuing efforts to subvert its neighbors, its rapid and destabilizing military buildup, its close military and security ties to Cuba and the Soviet Union and its imposition of Communist totalitarian internal rule." The embargo would end, said Speakes, when the Sandinistas took "concrete steps" to moderate their behavior...
When Washington first imposed a trade embargo on Cuba in October 1960, it hoped to force Havana to abandon Marxism. Today, nearly 25 years later, the Cuban government is still Marxist, and it is one of Moscow's closest allies. The example is mentioned by Carmelo Mesa-Lago, director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, as evidence that trade sanctions are at best only temporarily damaging. In the long run, he believes, the embargo against Nicaragua "will not work. History shows it did not work in the case of Cuba...
...longest-standing and strictest American trade restrictions are those against North Korea, which has been under a U.S. embargo since 1950. Sanctions against Viet Nam go back to 1954, and those against Kampuchea to 1975. These countries and Cuba face an American denial of all trade, travel and finance. Various U.S. economic restrictions have been imposed on other countries, including Libya, Iran, Iraq, South Yemen, Syria and South Africa...
...time and again, the restricted countries have managed to keep their economies intact despite the embargoes. Although the United Nations has supported restrictions on the sale of weapons to South Africa since 1977, that country seems to have suffered few adverse effects. Cuba turned to Moscow and now sends the bulk of its sugar, the country's leading export, to the Soviet Union and the East bloc...