The Cuban Embargo
The process began in the summer of 1960 when the Cuban government ordered two U.S. oil companies, Standard and Texaco, to refine Soviet crude oil at their Cuban refineries, rather than the oil they had been bringing in from their own sources. Not surprisingly, they refused. The Cuban response, on July 1st, was to nationalize both companies' holdings in Cuba. A few days later, the United States retaliated by cutting the Cuban sugar quota, and that led, in August, to Cuba's nationalization of virtually all U.S. property on the island. Since the embargo was issued, almost 40 years ago, it has only brought bigger and bigger problems. Neither country benefits from the effects of the economic embargo; therefore, the United States should lift the embargo on Cuba.The Cuban Embargo is harming the poor people of Cuba. Although the embargo is not the main reason for the Cuban people's misery, Cuba’s economy has something to do with it as well. The economy under Castro’s rule and policies is poor. If the embargo has no impact, then all it does it make things worse on the Cuban people. One of the policies of the United States toward Cuba is embodied in the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act, signed into law
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