Ana Tiburcio
Professor Fomerand
POL 260 Section 1
Spring 2014 Effects of United States foreign policy towards Cuba The foreign policy of the United States to Cuba in the course of recent years has created numerous issues for the Cuban culture and its kin, and relations between the two countries have been conflicting for a considerable length of time because of the savage foreign policy stance of the United States to Cuba. The United States has considered Cuba as its foe since July 1960 when Fidel Castro's new revolutionary government changed everything. Castro seized exclusive land in Cuba, nationalized a few exclusive organizations (the greater part of which were subsidiaries of U.S. organizations), and intensely burdened American items which prompted U.S. fares being diminished extraordinarily, about cutting them fifty-fifty in only two years. The United States government reacted three months after the fact by putting a fractional embargo on Cuba that rejected just sustenance and drug. Nonetheless, this measure just urged Castro to search somewhere else for exchange, and he rapidly found that Soviet Union was enthusiastic to partner itself with Cuba. Cuba's association with the comrade Soviet Union just made U.S.-Cuban relations more terrible, and in February of 1962 the United States forced a full exchange embargo on Cuba. The embargo has been set up since the time that with minor progressions made to it, some increasing limitations and some easing them. The United States forced the vile embargo just about fifty years back with expectations of toppling the degenerate Cuban government and maybe to bring vote based system to its people; in any case, it has done little to undermine Castro and Cuba's populace has endured enormously due to it, but then the embargo still stands right up until today. The United States embargo on Cuba has been detrimental to the Cuban people and society, causing widespread poverty and famine. Some may say that these problems are due to the failures of the corrupt Cuban government; however these problems can be directly traced to the U.S. embargo. The embargo has devastated the Cuban economy and forced many Cubans into poverty. “From an official Cuban source, the direct economic damages caused to Cuba by the U.S. embargo since its institution would exceed 70 billion dollars” (Herrara par. 4). The United States is normally a solid supporter for human rights, yet the embargo plainly abuses the human privileges of the Cuban individuals by denying them the right to get satisfactory nourishment and other fundamental merchandise, for example, pharmaceutical. Not just has the embargo been amazingly destructive to the Cuban individuals, yet it has likewise served as a helpful reason for Castro that he has used to deny any obligation regarding a hefty portion of Cuba's issues, putting the fault on the United States. “Fidel Castro has been able to use our embargo as an excuse to crack down on human rights and explain away every failure of his regime. By lifting the embargo, we lift the excuse” (Hostetter 97). This quote proposes that the embargo just gives Castro something to cover up behind for his fizzled government, faulting everything for the U.S. On the off chance that you take the embargo were taken out of the mathematical statement, Castro would be seen by the Cuban individuals and the world for who he genuinely is and how his approaches have neglected to lift the Cuban individuals from destitution with no honest to goodness method for safeguarding himself. In the event that this happens and the fact of the matter is uncovered, maybe it will support an improvement. The foreign policy of the United States to Cuba definitely changed in 1960, and the arrangement has gone almost unaltered for as far back as fifty years or so. Preceding the time that Fidel Castro took control in Cuba and headed the upset; the U.S. was exceptionally included in the Cuban economy and had a great association with the
