Cuba Embargo

By Vinny T23

  • President Eisenhower

    He approves a covert action plan against Cuba that includes the use of a powerful propaganda campaign"designed to overthrow Castro. The plan includes the termination of sugar purchases, the end of oil deliveries, continuation of the arms embargo, the organization of a paramilitary force of Cuban exiles to invade the island.

  • President Kennedy

    Kennedy broadens the partial trade restrictions imposed by Eisenhower to a ban on all trade with Cuba, except for non-subsidized sale of foods and medicines. President Kennedy expands the Cuban embargo to include imports of all goods made from or containing Cuban materials, even if made in other countries.

  • Dean Rusk

    Dean Rusk asked why the US trades with the Soviet Union but not with Cuba, Secretary of State Dean Rusk answers that the Soviet government is a permanent government, and the US views Castro as temporary. The Organization of American States adopts mandatory sanctions against Cuba.

  • Edward M. Kennedy

    Wants the U.S. government to lift the embargo and normalize relations with Cuba. Whatever the reasons are may have been at the time, now they are invalid. The Organization of American States votes to end political and economic sanctions against Cuba.

  • President Carter

    Carter drops the ban on travel to Cuba and on U.S. citizens spending dollars in Cuba. There were three major fields or issues that had to be addressed before there could be a substantial improvement in relations. First one Cuban troops had to begin to leave Africa. Second one there had to be some improvement in Cuba's human rights performance, and specially in terms of releasing political prisoners. Thrid one a reduction in Soviet-Cuban military ties.

  • Ronald Reagan

    Reagan is inaugurated as U.S. President, and institutes the most hostile policy against Cuba since the invasion at Bay of Pigs. Instead of conciliatory signals from Cuba, the new U.S. administration announces a tightening of the embargo.

  • Treasury

    According to new regulations by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, U.S. citizens who travel to Cuba can only spend a maximum of $100 per day.

  • Mack Amendment

    In alliance with conservative Republicans, Cubans and the U.S. Congress pass the Mack Amendment, which prohibits all trade with Cuba and U.S. companies located outside the U.S., and proposes sanctions of aid to any country that buys sugar or other products from Cuba.

  • General Assembly

    The UN General Assembly adopts a resolution on the ending of commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba. The vote is 88 for the resolution, 4 against, with 47 abstentions.

  • Clinton Administration

    Clinton announces a new people-to-people-contact plan.The United Nations General Assembly recommends an end to the embargo by a vote of 117 to 3. Only Israel and Uzbekistan join the U.S. in saying no. Since then, each time the vote comes up at the UN, the number of nations voting against the embargo increases.

  • Christopher Dodd

    Christopher Dodd is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee urges his government to establish a new conversation for the new millennium with Cuba.

  • Madeleine Albright

    He announces the first easing of sanctions on Iran. And a more symbolic than legal decision, Cuban courts order the US to pay $121 billion in damages for the 4-decade-long embargo.

  • Presidential Proclamation

    Presidental Proclamation bans vessels from traveling to Cuban ports from U.S. ports. According to a letter sent by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control to the U.S. Congress late last year the Treasury Department had 4 full-time employees dedicated to investigating Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, and over 2 dozen assigned to investigating Cuban Embargo violations.

  • House of Representatives Appropriations Committee

    It approves an amendment that rolls back a rule issued by the Treasury Department that requires that Cuba pay for food imports from the U.S. before they leave port. The full House and Senate must approve the amendment before it becomes law.

  • Michael B. Enzi

    Enzi introduces the Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act on the floor of the senate. They are not hurting the Cuban government, they are hurting the Cuban people he says.