Embargo Against Cube

By EHaese

  • The Beginning

    President Eisenhower 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 in effect since mid-1958 and the organization of a paramilitary force of Cuban exiles to invade the island.
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    Embargo On Cuba

    1. Why should we keep the embargo with Cuba? To keep american money here and use it to produce what we need.
    2. Why should we remove the embargo with Cuba? so we can expand our market with theirs and open up a new trade system and make money for our economy.
    3. In your opinion, should we keep or remove the embargo? We should remove it because the Cold War is over and the man that was in charge is dead and cuba poses no threat to us anymore.

  • The Foreign Assistance Act

    The Foreign Assistance Act is amended to prohibit aid to "any country" that provides assistance to Cuba.

  • Trade Allowed

    The U.S. announces that it will allow foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies to sell products in Cuba, and that it would no longer penalize other nations for trade with Cuba.

  • Relations Still Tight

    U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger states that there is no possibility of U.S. relations with Cuba while Cuban troops are in Africa.

  • Travel Allowed

    U.S. President Carter drops the ban on travel to Cuba and on U.S. citizens spending dollars in Cuba.

  • Travel Ban

    U.S. President Reagan bans travel to the U.S. by Cuban government or Communist Party officials or their representatives. It also bars most students, scholars, and artists.

  • Mack Amendment

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

  • Solidarity Act

    President Clinton signs the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (Libertad) Act (also known as the Helms-Burton Act) which imposes penalties on foreign companies doing business in Cuba, permits U.S. citizens to sue foreign investors who make use of American-owned property seized by the Cuban government, and denies entry into the U.S. to such foreign investors.

  • News in Cuba

    The Clinton Administration approves licenses for U.S. news organizations to open bureaus in Cuba. (The Cuban government allows only CNN into the island.)

  • Suspended

    President Clinton again suspends enforcement of Title III provisions of the Helms-Burton Act.

  • CPF Poll

    In Washington, the Cuba Policy Foundation releases a poll in which a majority of Americans are said to support the idea of doing business with Cuba and allowing travel to the island. Most agree with the decision to reunite Elián González with his father in Cuba.

  • CAFC

    U.S. President George W. Bush establishes the Committee for Assistance to a Free Cuba, and further enforces the ban on travel to the island.

  • Proclomation 7757

    U.S. President Bush signs Presidential Proclamation 7757, which bans vessels from traveling to Cuban ports from U.S. ports.

  • End Of The Embargo?

    For the 15th straight year in a row, the UN General Assembly votes overwhelmingly on a resolution to demand an end of the US embargo against Cuba. The vote is 183 in favor of the resolution (to end the embargo) and 4 against, with the nation of Micronesia abstaining. Voting with the US is Israel, the Marshall Islands and Palau.

  • Travel To Cuba Act

    US Senator Michael B. Enzi introduces the "Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act" on the floor of the senate: "If you keep on doing what you have always been doing," he says, "you are going to wind up getting what you already got. …We are not hurting the Cuban government; we are hurting the Cuban people. …It is time for a different policy."