Next year will mark a half-century from the day when the United States teetered on the brink of nuclear war. The stakes were very high on Oct. 22, 1962, when President Kennedy, in an historic message to the nation, ordered a blockade around Cuba and threatened the Soviets if they did not remove missiles found there. Tensions were great as a nuclear war seemed imminent.
It sounds more like the acts of an authoritarian regime than a democratic state. The U.S. Department of the Treasury prohibits all Americans from spending any money in Cuba except for certain activities (academic study, journalist reporting, etc.). These prohibitions, long since a part of the U.S. government's embargo of Cuba since the Cold War, were further strengthened under current U.S. President George W. Bush. It is another way of saying Americans cannot travel to Cuba-not without official permission that is. Any American traveling to Cuba without official permission faces a $250,000 fine and 10 years in prison. The U.S. government has also put on extra personnel at checkpoints between the U.S.-Canada and U.S. Mexico borders to spot those Americans who might have visited Cuba via t...
... Marblehead, for attempting to run the blockade established at Guantanamo bay in the island of Cub..., and from time to time had made voyages to Cuban ports. After the breaking out of the war the steam...
President-elect Barack Obama said during his election campaign that he would not lift the economic blockade of Cuba, which in some form has been in effect since the administration of Jack Kennedy, but he did talk of plans to end restrictions on family visits and on remittances by Cubans in the US who want to help relatives back home. In a country where the state controls about 90% of economic activity and employs by far the bulk of the national labor force, Raul Castro has begun to revamp the wage system to create more incentives. Like autocrats elsewhere, Raul Castro has been blaming many of the difficulties on the international financial crisis, which, he insists, is the main reason why Cuba faces tougher conditions from rising fuel and food prices and sharply higher import costs. Evi...
[Susan Rice] said the [Barack Obama] administration had entered into "a new chapter to this old story." The ambassador said that in recent months, the U.S. had taken several steps to reach out to Cubans to help ensure they could freely determine their nation's future. "The United States has the sovereign right to conduct economic relations with another country as it sees fit," Rice added. Cuba has extended a hand of friendship to other nations around the world, notably in the areas of health, education and biotechnology," the ambassador explained. "Cuba's contribution in support of self-determination, freedom and justice had been noted in South Africa, and the island nation's role in his country's liberation was celebrated in South Africa in 2008," he added. Rev. [Lucius Walker] has st...
... for foreign affairs of Cuba, called the blockade an "uncultured act of arrogance" that has hampered...
UNITY - The 30th annual Common Ground Fair, Maine's largest celebration of rural living, got under way Friday and from the minutes the gates opened, thousands of visitors poured into the campus maintained by the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association. At one point Friday morning, traffic was backed up all the way to Burnham. Whether it was getting the latest information on composting toilets or the economic blockade of Cuba, or buying fresh goat soap or a skein of naturally dyed wool, there was something for everyone, including busloads of schoolchildren.
Once more, Cuba is in the news. The latest reference to Fidel Castro's fortress is by Russia's President Vladimir Putin, incensed by Bush administration plans to deploy an antiballistic missile system close to his border. Putin draws dramatic parallel with Nikita Khrushchev's 1962 effort to place Soviet offensive nuclear missiles on the island. In response, President John F. Kennedy initiated a naval blockade of Cuba and steadily ratcheted up pressure until the offending weapons were removed.
...blockade, the nation's economy, and the need for economic r...
... was quite natural that the word expression "Cuban missile crisis" was very frequently used in such p...When the idea of arranging a sea blockade of Cuba first emerged, this group was sharply crit...
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