Tag: Cuba - USA trade embargo

• Thursday, June 6th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Trump administration clamps down on US tourist visits to Cuba: cruise industry in shock

  

  The Trump administration clamped down on US tourist visits to Cuba on Tuesday, aiming to cut the flow of dollars to a country that Washington accuses of helping prop up Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

• Saturday, November 3rd 2018 - 06:30 UTC

  Havana reacts to new Trump sanctions: “they will not break the will of Cubans”

  

  Cuba on Friday said new sanctions planned by the United States were a futile attempt to change its policies and would only further isolate Washington internationally.

• Friday, June 16th 2017 - 19:40 UTC

  Trump says he is restoring some of the restrictions lifted after the Obama administration's detente with Cuba.

  

  US President Donald Trump has reversed parts of his predecessor Barack Obama's diplomatic re-engagement with Cuba, tightening rules on Americans travelling there and restricting US companies dealing with enterprises controlled by the island nation's military.

• Wednesday, September 30th 2015 - 07:46 UTC

  Obama and Castro renew calls for an end to US trade embargo against Cuba

  

  President Barack Obama met his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro on Tuesday at the United Nations and renewed calls for an end to the US trade embargo against Havana.

• Friday, January 23rd 2015 - 07:04 UTC

  US and Cuba agree to continue disagreeing but want to advance

  

  The United States and Cuba fell short of setting dates to reopen embassies but agreed to meet again to overcome deep rifts after they wrapped up historic talks aimed at normalizing relations.

• Saturday, January 3rd 2015 - 06:32 UTC

  Mujica defends Brazilian leadership in the region and called for strong unity

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica defended Brazil's leadership in helping Latin America carve a place and advance in the world context, but at the same time underlined that even when Brazil seems large to its neighbors, together with the rest of the countries, the region is still small in global terms.

• Saturday, January 3rd 2015 - 05:43 UTC

  We have so much to learn from Cuba

  

  By Robert F Kennedy Jr. (*) - In early December, President Barack Obama announced the restoration of diplomatic relations with Cuba after more than five decades of a misguided policy which my uncle, John F. Kennedy, and my father, Robert F. Kennedy, had been responsible for enforcing after the U.S. embargo against the country was first implemented in October 1960 by the Eisenhower administration.

• Friday, June 20th 2014 - 06:19 UTC

  Mujica delivers Obama message to Castro: 'let's talk about lifting the trade embargo”

  

  Uruguay's president Jose Mujica delivered a message from Barak Obama to Cuba's Raul Castro proposing the opening of dialogue to discuss the blockade, reported the Montevideo media on Thursday. The occasion was the recent G77 summit held in Bolivia.