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...quality, illicit cigars. To Harvard students, it’s the newest academic destination of choice. This spring, Harvard will offer a study abroad program at the University of Havana, an experience that would “otherwise be illegal for U.S. citizens and residents because of the U.S. embargo on trade with Cuba,” says the Web site for the Office of International Programs (OIP). Study in Cuba has recently become more difficult because of new regulations that make it trickier for Harvard to obtain licenses from the Office of Foreign Assets Control. The new rules, says...
...Japan have taken the lead in pushing for tough measures that would squeeze North Korea by enforcing a wide-ranging embargo, requiring that shipping entering and leaving North Korean waters be subject to search under threat of force. Japan has already instituted tough measures curbing trade and travel, and Washington and Tokyo pushed for the Security Council to pass a resolution under Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter, which allows for decisions to be backed by the threat or use of force in response to threats to global security...
...undergraduates from enrolling in a program run by Butler University—a popular option for those interested in Cuba. Because study abroad programs often rely on students enrolling from multiple universities, most programs in Cuba (including Bulter’s) have been discontinued. As part of an economic embargo with the ostensible aim of encouraging democratization, the new regulations are nonsensical: They have a negligible impact on the Cuban economy while impoverishing its intellectual environment, as well as denying U.S. scholars the chance to learn more about the island state.The DRCLAS program is only scheduled to run this spring...
...Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh. Both sides were anxious to work out a formula that would end Western sanctions, which had choked off foreign aid and tax money to the struggling Palestinian Authority and prevented the payment of salaries to 160,000 government workers over the past five months. The embargo had been imposed after Hamas, which won the January elections, took office in March. Israel, the U.S. and Europe all consider Hamas a terrorist organization, and made ending the financial blockade conditional on Hamas recognizing Israel and previous peace agreements, and renouncing violence...
...about academic freedom in the island-nation. The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) and the Harvard College Office of International Programs (OIP) have obtained a federal license for a joint effort with Cuba’s preeminent educational institution. The U.S. government’s current embargo on trade with Cuba has stymied Harvard students’ past attempts to study in the country with programs that were not College-affiliated. Current law forbids student travel to Cuba unless the student is from a university that has applied for and received an academic exchange license from...