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Reform +Rape For Profit "Trump Tower" Rock Star & (hidden) business in communist Cuba during
Fidel Castro’s presidency” despite such actions being strictly prohibited by
Federal law (Nice)
An embargo (from
the Spanish embargo, meaning hindrance, obstruction, etc. in a general sense, a
trading ban in trade terminology and literally "distraint" in juridic
parlance) is the partial or complete prohibition of commerce and trade with a
particular country or a group of countries.
Embargoes are considered strong diplomatic
measures imposed in an effort, by the imposing country, to elicit a given national-interest
result from the country on which it is imposed. Embargoes are similar to
economic sanctions and are generally considered legal barriers to trade, not to
be confused with blockades, which are often considered to be acts of war.
Embargoes can mean
limiting or banning export or import, creating quotas for quantity, imposing
special tolls, taxes, banning freight or transport vehicles, freezing or
seizing freights, assets, bank accounts, limiting the transport of particular
technologies or products (high-tech) for example CoCom during the cold-war.
In response to
embargoes, an independent economy or autarky often develops in an area
subjected to heavy embargo. Effectiveness of embargoes is thus in proportion to
the extent and degree of international participation.
The United States
embargo against Cuba (in Cuba called el bloqueo, "the blockade") is a
commercial, economic, and financial embargo imposed by the United States on
Cuba. An embargo was first imposed by the United States on Cuba on October 19,
1960 (almost two years after the Batista regime was deposed by the Cuban
Revolution) when the U.S. placed an embargo on exports to Cuba except for food
and medicine after Cuba nationalized American-owned Cuban oil refineries
without compensation.
Cuba nationalized
the refineries following Eisenhower's decision to cancel 700,000 tons of sugar
imports from Cuba to the U.S. and refused to export oil to the island, leaving
it reliant on Soviet crude oil. All American oil companies refused to refine
Soviet oil, leading the Cuban government to nationalize the refineries. The
refinery owners were never compensated for the Cuban nationalization of their
property. Today the refineries are owned & operated by the state-run
company, Unión CubaPetróleo.
On February 7, 1962 the embargo was extended
to include almost all imports.
Currently, the
Cuban embargo is enforced mainly through six statutes: the Trading with the
Enemy Act of 1917, the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, the Cuban Assets Control
Regulations of 1963, the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992, the Helms–Burton Act of
1996, and the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000.
The stated purpose of the Cuban Democracy Act
of 1992 is to maintain sanctions on Cuba so long as the Cuban government
refuses to move toward "democratization and greater respect for human
rights".
The Helms–Burton Act further restricted United
States citizens from doing business in or with Cuba, and mandated restrictions
on giving public or private assistance to any successor government in Havana
unless and until certain claims against the Cuban government were met. In 1999,
President Bill Clinton expanded the trade embargo by also disallowing foreign
subsidiaries of U.S. companies to trade with Cuba. In 2000, Clinton authorized
the sale of "humanitarian" U.S. products to Cuba.
Despite the
Spanish-language term bloqueo (blockade), there has been no physical, naval
blockade of the country by the United States after the Cuban Missile Crisis in
1962.
The United States does not block Cuba's trade
with third parties: other countries are not under the jurisdiction of U.S.
domestic laws, such as the Cuban Democracy Act (although, in theory, foreign
countries that trade with Cuba could be penalised by the U.S., which has been
condemned as an "extraterritorial" measure that contravenes "the
sovereign equality of States, non-intervention in their internal affairs and
freedom of trade and navigation as paramount to the conduct of international
affairs." Cuba can, and does, conduct international trade with many
third-party countries;
Cuba has been a
member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) since 1995.
Beyond criticisms
of Human rights in Cuba, the United States holds $6 billion worth of financial
claims against the Cuban government.
The pro-embargo position is that the U.S.
embargo is, in part, an appropriate response to these unaddressed claims.
The Latin America Working Group argues that
pro-embargo Cuban-American exiles, whose votes are crucial in Florida, have
swayed many politicians to also adopt similar views.
The
Cuban-American views have been opposed by some business leaders who argue that
trading freely would be good for Cuba and the United States.
At present, the
embargo, which limits American businesses from conducting business with Cuban
interests, is still in effect and is the most enduring trade embargo in modern
history. Despite the existence of the embargo, the United States is the fifth
largest exporter to Cuba (6.6% of Cuba's imports are from the US). Cuba must,
however, pay cash for all imports, as credit is not allowed.
The UN General
Assembly has, since 1992, passed a resolution every year condemning the ongoing
impact of the embargo and declaring it to be in violation of the Charter of the
United Nations and international law. In 2014, out of the 193-nation assembly,
188 countries voted for the nonbinding resolution, the United States and Israel
voted against and the Pacific island nations Palau, Marshall Islands and Micronesia
abstained.
Human rights groups including Amnesty
International, Human Rights Watch, and the Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights have also been critical of the embargo. Critics of the embargo say that
the embargo laws are too harsh, citing the fact that violations can result in
10 years in prison
A company
controlled by Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, secretly
conducted business in communist Cuba during Fidel Castro’s presidency despite
strict American trade bans that made such undertakings illegal, according to interviews
with former Trump executives, internal company records and court filings.
Documents show
that the Trump company spent a minimum of $68,000 for its 1998 foray into Cuba
at a time when the corporate expenditure of even a penny in the Caribbean country
was prohibited without government approval. But the company did not spend the
money directly. Instead, with Trump’s knowledge, executives funneled the cash
for the Cuba trip through an American consulting firm called Seven Arrows
Investment and Development Corporation.
Once the business
consultants traveled to the island and incurred the expenses for the venture,
Seven Arrows instructed senior officers with Trump’s company, then called Trump
Hotels & Casino Resorts, on how to make the venture appear legal by linking
it after-the-fact to a charitable effort.
The payment by
Trump Hotels came just before the New York business mogul launched his first
bid for the White House by seeking the nomination of the Reform Party. On his
first day of the campaign, he traveled to Miami where he spoke to a group of
Cuban-Americans, a critical voting bloc in the swing state. Trump vowed to
maintain the embargo and never spend his or his companies’ money in Cuba until
Fidel Castro was removed from power. He did not disclose that, seven months
earlier, Trump Hotels already had spent money sending consultants on the secret
trip to conduct business in Havana.
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