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Latin America

EX500rider

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12. Not my fault if you can't read the definitions and understand them.

Reply to Mika (Reply #11)

Mon Oct 3, 2016, 06:20 PM

Oct 2016

Embargo not the same thing as a blockade.

A blockade would be the US Navy surrounding Cuba and not allowing ANY ships to pass, got it?

A embargo is the US refusing to trade with Cuba.

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Counting the cost of the Cuban blockade [View all] Judi Lynn Sep 2016 OP

Embargo not the same thing as a blockade....there is no blockade. EX500rider Oct 2016 #1

U.S.- Cuba relations not normalized until blockade ends Judi Lynn Oct 2016 #2

The US Blockade of Cuba: Its Effects and Global Consequences Judi Lynn Oct 2016 #3

Destabiliziation in Latin America Judi Lynn Oct 2016 #4

As General Assembly Demands End to Cuba Blockade for Twenty-Third Consecutive Year, Country’s Foreig Judi Lynn Oct 2016 #5

So they are all wrong, whats your point? EX500rider Oct 2016 #6

Really? Mika Oct 2016 #8

So simple to understand, for most people, isn't it? Judi Lynn Oct 2016 #9

Yeah and Cuba is not sealed off, goods arrive by ship and plane every day. EX500rider Oct 2016 #10

So, the US has no laws that prevent goods or people from entering or leaving Cuba? Mika Oct 2016 #11

Not my fault if you can't read the definitions and understand them. EX500rider Oct 2016 #12

Nothing to do w/reading. Has to do w/interpretation. Mika Oct 2016 #13

Has to do with the actual meanings of words.. EX500rider Oct 2016 #17

An embargo doesn't have the power to demand that hotels in other countries throw out Cuban people Judi Lynn Oct 2016 #15

Actually the US embargo does have all those powers...as you just showed. EX500rider Oct 2016 #16

Wrong. The US has gone beyond its legal authority, as everyone knows. Everyone. Judi Lynn Oct 2016 #18

Sez Fidel's BFF... Zorro Oct 2016 #19

The US can conduct it's economic embargo as it see's fit.. EX500rider Oct 2016 #20

An affront to our sovereignty Judi Lynn Oct 2016 #7

More than 50 Years Later, the Blockade Against Cuba Survives as Punishment for Achieving Self-Determ Judi Lynn Oct 2016 #14