Cuban Embargo Research Paper

Cuba is less than 100 miles off the coast of Florida. A flight from Miami would take less than 30 minutes. However, that is not possible. If Americans want to travel to Cuba they need to either have a special visa or leave from another country, because regular flights between Cuba and the United States are non-existent. The US had many investments in Cuba when Fidel Castro and his guerrilla warfare took over Cuba in 1959. Therefore the U.S. was no longer able to steal from Cuba. The U.S. responded by imposing a partial trade embargo against Cuba on October 19th, 1960 (Simon 6). On February 3rd 1962 the US government declared a total embargo on the Republic of Cuba (Simons 6).

Fidel Castro analyzed the purpose of the economic blockade on Cuba's Televisión- Revolución : "This action is aimed
Other times they are put on countries that have been condemned by the international community for wrongdoing. But that is not the case with Cuba. Why is the U.S. at war with Cuba?

If the embargo is in fact because they are communist and to force democratic reform, then why does the U.S. trade with China? Vietnam? Which are both communist. There are also many negative effects caused by the embargo. Even though there have been recent breaks in the Cuban-U.S. relations there will be huge benefits of ending it. The U.S. embargo on Cuba is hurting the U.S. economy without serving a real benefit and should be lifted.

U.S. hypocrisy is a definite part of the embargo. While it is to force democratic reform because Cuba is communist, the U.S. trades with other communist countries. While Castro may run a harsh regime, the Chinese do too. But the U.S. trades with communist China which even has most favored nation trading status providing them with $85 billion trade surpluses (Cowal 7). The U.S. also trades with Vietnam and most other communist countries. Maybe the embargo made sense in the Cold War, but it makes no sense now and