Word: embargoed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Johnson did not have to enforce the Cuban trade embargo. Although the 1963 Foreign Aid Act bans assistance to countries transporting merchandise to Cuba, it gives the President discretionary powers for enforcement. Instead of resisting emotional cries for action, Johnson has chosen to adopt a harsh foreign policy, to indulge in "get-tough" posturing...
Castro's campaign to break through the U.S. economic embargo was picking up speed. On top of recent negotiations for British buses and Spanish fishing boats, two French firms-Automobiles M. Berliet and Richard Frères-an nounced that they will sell $10 million worth of trucks and tractors to Cuba, with the French government guaranteeing up to 90% of the unpaid balance...
...CUBA, with British buses, Spanish machines and all manner of Dutch, Swedish and Japanese goods flowing in, the U.S. was faced with the inevitable collapse of its economic embargo-thanks to its allies...
...Cuba remains the bone in the U.S. throat. The U.S. is committed to a relatively inactive policy of trying to isolate Castro from foreign trade. The embargo is not working perfectly by any means, for Britain recently made a trade deal with the Communist dictator. And last week while Castro was in Moscow, a new Soviet-Cuban trade agreement was announced. In return for the favor, Castro promised to sign the atomic test ban treaty. All the while, he continues to try to export his revolution to other Latin American countries...
Ever since 1960, the U.S. has been putting an economic squeeze on Communist Cuba with what amounts to an unofficial trade embargo. Free world nations are urged not to do business with Castro, and all vessels in Cuban trade are blacklisted from picking up U.S. Government-financed cargo. So far, 196 vessels are on the forbidden list; free world trade has skidded from $1.3 billion in 1959 to less than $300 million last year, leaving Castro almost totally dependent on his Iron Curtain friends. But last week Great Britain knocked a hole in the embargo big enough to drive...