Battle of Ideas: Anti-Communism Prolongs Already Long US Blockade of Cuba

Remarkably, the U. S. economic blockade of Cuba is 60 years old. It began with President John Kennedy’s executive order signed on February 3, 1962 that broadened existing restrictions on U.S.-Cuba trade. When the blockade reached its35-year milestone, it was already “the longest embargo in modem history”, according to one observer. Equally remarkable is the More

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