Fifty Years Later with Nothing Accomplished: Why We Should Lift the Cuban Embargo by Amanda Delgado
In 1962, President Kennedy signed Proclamation 3447, which established the embargo against Cuba to reduce “the threat posed by its alignment with the communist powers,” in response to the confiscation of American property in Cuba under Castro’s newly installed rule. Fifty years later, the embargo is still in place and has not, in any way,…