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An 8 page paper which examines why the Cuban embargoes are still in effect many decades later. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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conducive to further global growth. The embargoes, placed to keep Castro under some sort of control it seems, have inadvertently, it seems, harmed both Cuba and the United States. However,
there are those who claim that to lift these embargoes would be to allow Castro the financial freedom to wreak havoc in the world. It is, to say the least,
a very controversial topic that is getting a great deal of attention in the past few years. The following paper discusses the embargoes from various perspectives, discussing why the embargoes
were put in place and what the likely result of lifting embargoes would be. The Embargo If we really want to know where the embargoes against Cuba started
it is, according to one author, perhaps important to go back into the history of the United States. Mark White, in his work "Missiles in Cuba," begins his book by
illustrating how the United States was essentially based on revolutionary people and ideals but that after the French Revolution American citizens "ambivalence towards revolution had become almost a total repulsion"
and this is the foundation of much of the nations attitude towards Cuba and the Revolution that brought Castro into power (3). In this we see that the American people
are fearful of revolution and thus of revolutionaries as well, despite the fact the nation was built from revolutionaries. With the emergence of Cuba as a power in the
1960s, as they posed a very serious nuclear threat, the United States set out to stop Castro as best they could without open warfare. Open warfare, which was barely avoided
in the Cuban missile crisis, would have brought total devastation to much of the world and thus needed to be avoided at all costs. Embargoes were the next best thing,
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