Cuba embargo

Embargo: U.S. vs. Cuba

By Mr Dr Pepper911

  • Embargo: Start

    Embargo: Start
    President Eisenhower approves a covert action plan against Cuba that includes the use of a "powerful propaganda campaign" designed to overthrow Castro.

  • President Kennedy's Part

    President Kennedy's Part
    President 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.

  • Cuban Embargo: Traveling

    The Kennedy administration prohibits travel to Cuba and makes financial and commercial transactions with Cuba illegal for U.S. citizens.

  • Tavel Ban: Lifted

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

  • Family Visit

    Cuban-Americans are permitted to visit their families in Cuba. More than 100,000 visit in the coming year.

  • Travel Ban: Again

    Travel Ban: Again
    The Reagan Administration reestablishes the travel ban, prohibits U.S. citizens from spending money in Cuba, and allows the 1977 fishing accord to lapse.

  • Spending Limit

    Spending Limit
    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.

  • Lawsuits

    Lawsuits
    In a more symbolic than legal decision, Cuban courts order the US to pay $121 billion in damages for the 4-decade-long embargo. A similar lawsuit in November 1999 found the US government liable for deaths and damage from "aggressive policies towards Cuba," in the amount of $181 billion. Observers content that both lawsuits came about in response to a ruling by a US federal judge in Miami ordering Cuba to pay $187 million to families of pilots shot down by Cuban fighter planes in 1996.

  • U.S. Turns Down Offer

    The U.S. government turns down a Cuban offer to compensate Americans for properties confiscated by the Revolution 40 years ago.

  • George W. Bush: Decision

    George W. Bush: Decision
    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.

  • Considering

    About 3 dozen US travel industry executives spend the day in Cuba to consider "future business potential." At the end of the day they return to a resort in Cancun, Mexico, where the first US-Cuba travel conference is held.

  • Rebuff

    Rebuff
    The U.S. Senate votes (59 to 36) in favor of lifting the ban on travel to Cuba. The result is similar to a vote at the House of Representatives last month. This is a major "rebuff" of President Bush's policy towards Cuba. (The travel ban was introduced by President John F. Kennedy in 1963.)

  • President Bush

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

  • Try Again

    For the 13th consecutive year, the UN General Assembly votes overwhelmingly against the U.S. embargo on Cuba. The vote is 179 to 4, with 1 abstention. Voting with the U.S. for the embargo are Israel, Palau and the Marshall Islands.

  • The End

    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."