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Cuban Trade Embargo
Title: Cuban Trade Embargo
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 1073 | Pages: 4.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Cuban Trade Embargo
The Cuban Trade Embargo
In the summer of 1960, the United States set in motion a process that has gradually grown stronger ever since. This process was the Cuban Trade Embargo. The process began when the Cuban government ordered two U.S. oil companies, Standard and Texaco, to refine Soviet crude oil at their Cuban refineries. The two companies refused, and to no one’s surprise, the Cuban response, on July 1 of that year, was to
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trade embargo continues to be prevalent. Despite opposition amongst 167 nations across the world, loss of billions of dollars to American Industry, and health issues concerning the people that the embargo was initially set up to protect, the United States maintains its standing on the Cuban Trade Embargo. It must be realized that without a halt to the embargo, the Cuban nation will never achieve the democracy that the embargo was initially set out to promote.
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