The History of US Sanctions on Cuba w/ Helen Yaffe
Guerrilla History
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The Six Principles of Sanctions on Cuba
There's six primary tools that the US uses to sanction to sanction Cuba. These all are very complex and large acts in themselves that then start to interweave themselves with on another. The first set of legislation were mainly focused on cutting off Cuban exports to the U.S. And it only starts to apply to other countries or individuals and entities in third countries in the 1990s period. To understand how devastating that was to Cuba you have to know something about the economic history of Cuba.
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