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) The commentariat was divided as to whether the pope's visit presaged the end of Fidel Castro or of the United States' "inane embargo" (Eleanor Clift, The McLaughlin Group ). Most agreed that Gore's courting of the Florida vote would prohibit any change in our current policy.
The U.S. government has fined fewer than 100 people for going to Cuba since the travel embargo kicked in 36 years ago.
The sanctions 1) prevent Iraq from accessing billions held in foreign banks and 2) embargo all trade.
Every week, Rodriguez must halt surgery because he can't get one or another material through the embargo.
To make matters worse, in 1992 the Cuba Democracy Act extended the US embargo to cover a ban on trade with Cuba for foreign subsidiaries of US companies.