Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boycott. Direct trade with Cuba is still banned. But U.S. firms with overseas subsidiaries will now be allowed to make unrestricted sales to Cuba from their foreign-owned plants; foreign merchant vessels will be allowed to refuel in U.S. ports even if they have previously called in Cuban ports; and countries that trade with Cuba will be eligible to receive U.S. food supplies distributed under U.S. Public...
...skyjackers and let the U.S. know they could be picked up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He returned $2 million in ransom money that had been taken to Cuba in 1972 by the skyjackers of a Southern Airways DC-9. He also toned down the anti-American rhetoric on Cuban radio concerning the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo...
...Ecuador the CIA's first goal was to force the Ecuadorean government to end its recognition of Cuba and to deport all Cuban nationals. The CIA also wanted the Ecuadorean government to end relations with all other communist countries and to declare all their citizens and representatives to be persona non grata. Finally the CIA was determined to undermine the indigenous Ecuadorean Left, concentrated in the labor unions and universities...
...politicians' homes, party headquarters, and the embassies of communist countries. CIA agents also bombed Catholic churches and Conservative political part headquarters, and than blamed the bombings on "communist terrorists."' Using secret printing presses, forgeries and paid agents in the Ecuadorian press, the CIA spread constant anti-communist and anti-Cuban propaganda to the Ecuadorean public...
Agee spent three years in Ecuador, between 1960 and 1963, learning the ropes of "clandestine activity." These were the years of the Cuban Revolution, when the United States did everything in its power, short of an outright declaration of war, to stop Castro and the socialist state he desired...