Join @HarbinerMLEC at 6:00 pm to discuss Obama’s announcement over the Cuban Embargo and what that could mean for South Florida and the United States as a whole. The hash tag will be #EmbargoTalk Read up on the announcement at: http://mlecharbinger.wordpress.com/2014/12/18/the-facts-on-the-obamas-announcement-on-the-cuban-embargo/#comments
By Nathalie Mairena It was Cold War hostilities that pushed the Cuban embargo in 1961. The embargo completely froze commercial, financial, and economic ties between the United States and Cuba, and thus it has remained for the past 54 years. That is until yesterday, December 17, when Obama said they would return to “normalized” relations…
The staff of MLEC’s The Harbinger engaged readers on Twitter and provoked a discussion about the 50-year-old US embargo on Cuba. Below (linked) are only some of the hundreds of tweets the flooded the Twittersphere last night and made #EmbargoTalk a national trending topic. http://storify.com/FlaviaCuervo/embargotalk
On February 19th, The Harbinger hosted #EmbargoTalk, a “Twitter talk” in which staff members engaged with the community to discuss the Cuban embargo. Linked below is the video produced by the Harbinger to promote the talk: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48h-kr6LqVo&feature=youtu.be]