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Article: Cuba: Policy Agenda for the Future.
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- Foreign Policy in Focus
- Article date:
- November 9, 1999
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In recent years, U.S. policy toward Cuba has been guided by two primary objectives or "tracks": to isolate the Cuban government and to provide support to the Cuban population. The former has generally taken priority, precluding various measures that would help the Cuban people but might indirectly benefit the government as well.
Elements of the first track have been in place since 1960, when the U.S. imposed an economic embargo on trade between the two countries. Although many expected an emphasis on isolation to decline with the end of the cold war, recent years have instead brought an intensification of U.S. pressure tactics, initiated primarily by the ...