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...Castro had declared Cuba a socialist state and abolished free elections. Confrontations such as the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis revealed the deep tensions that had quickly developed since Castro departed Harvard a few years prior. Today, the United States still holds a trade embargo against Cuba. Travel restrictions also hinder the exchange of ideas and cultures between citizens of the two nations. AN ACADEMIC EXCEPTIONAlthough Americans are not permitted to freely enter Cuba, Harvard students are. Despite hostile foreign policies that the United States still holds towards Cuba, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American...
...emptive sanctions based on incomplete or inaccurate intelligence, and threats are not going to stop North Korea or Iran from becoming nuclear powers. Instead what we need is an ex post facto international regime with real teeth: You test a bomb, and you face certain and total economic embargo, one that will make the pre-emptive sanctions we have in place now seem like a day at the polo club. Right now China should be closing its border with North Korea, cutting off everything except food. It is only when the lights go off in Pyongyang that the North Koreans...
...Furthermore, Obama should take the radical but logical step of lifting the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba. The harsh economic sanctions are a historical relic from past efforts to dislodge Cuban leader Fidel Castro, whom several presidential administrations—beginning in the 1960s—have tried unsuccessfully to shake from power. The sanctions may have actually had the opposite of their intended effect politically, allowing Castro to blame the U.S. for Cuba’s sluggish economic development. As disagreeable as Castro’s actions toward America may have been, an embargo rooted in personal enmity against...
...Haitian police force. Some carried only sidearms, some no guns at all. Clinton decided he could not risk sending them ashore and ordered the Harlan County to pull up anchor and steam away. At U.S. request, the U.N. Security Council voted to reimpose as of midnight Monday an embargo on oil and arms shipments to Haiti. An earlier embargo had pushed the Haitian military leaders into agreeing to let Aristide resume power on Oct. 30. But this time they answered with murder -- of Guy Malary, Justice Minister in the transitional government that was to pave the way for Aristide...
...Obama also seems to understand now that he and the hemisphere won't get too far in correcting that situation until they get past the Cuba problem. It turned out to be the summit's marquee issue, largely because other Latin leaders see the embargo as a reflection of how Washington treats them as well. Before leaving for Trinidad, Obama eliminated restrictions on Cuban-American travel and remittances to the island - a gesture that effectively threw the ball, as Obama said, into Havana's court. To everyone's surprise, Cuban President Raul Castro - who is making a serious push...