Word: embargos
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...saga. The protests against the return of the six-year-old to his father in Cuba prompted charges of intolerance within Miami, and did little to endear the exile community to the wider American mainstream. And with pressure mounting in Washington for a reexamination of the four-decade-old embargo against Cuba that has failed to make any discernible dent in Fidel Castro's power, Mas Santos and other younger CANF leaders saw the Grammys as an opportunity to show the exiles on their best behavior - which was why they lobbied hard for the show to be held in their...
...some cataclysmic event that would see Castro overthrown, the reality is beginning to dawn that the aging strongman is more likely to choose his own retirement date, and that his regime won't necessarily retire along with him. And that's prompted growing concern in Washington that the longstanding embargo may actually be functioning to deny the U.S. influence over the shape of a post-Castro Cuba. Increasingly urgent calls for more U.S. engagement with people on the island has challenged the CANF and other exiled groups to find new ways to make their own voices heard in shaping...
...global situation today in some ways compares to the decade after the 1973 oil embargo, when fuel prices soared. Americans suddenly wanted smaller and more fuel-efficient vehicles. The Japanese, who had been building such cars for years, won lucrative market share and customer loyalty that U.S. producers have never entirely regained. Now as then, the affected U.S. companies are debating not only corporate strategy but also the appropriate role for government...
...order barring Americans from financing the rebels, a move NATO chief George Robertson said the E.U. might follow. RUSSIA Defending Iraq Moscow said it would block a U.S.-British initiative for "smart sanctions" against Iraq and instead introduce a resolution calling for the gradual lifting of all U.N. embargoes. The move effectively thwarted Security Council plans to introduce more targeted sanctions against Iraq this week. The measures would ease restrictions on civilian goods while retaining the military embargo against Saddam Hussein. Moscow's rejection of the new proposals followed a meeting of Russian oil and gas company executives, urging...
Liberia's President Charles Taylor is not a happy man. Rebels based in neighboring Guinea regularly conduct raids across the border, while the United Nations recently announced an embargo on diamond exports from Liberia. Of course, the country has no diamonds of its own, but that's part of the problem: Taylor and his cronies stand accused of sponsoring the murderous, limb-chopping Revolutionary United Front rebels in neighboring Sierra Leone, a country with bountiful diamond fields. Taylor, who escaped from an American prison before returning to Liberia and fighting a bloody "liberation" war, denies he backs...