Should the United States continue to its Embargo on Cuba? .
This paper discusses the United States (U.) foreign policy, the events that led to the U.S. embargo against Cuba and it will then address the following issues: should this embargo against Cuba be lifted or remain in place, my personal views regarding the embargo and finally my position on the policy as it relates to Cuba.
The U.S. policy toward Cuba is the same for other countries around the world. Which include the following countries: China, Brazil, Peru and Kosovo. There are three pillars of U.S. policy. The first pillar represents the promotion of human rights, democracy and the rule of law. The Second represents the promotion of open economic and communication systems. The last pillar represents and symbolizes reduction of global scourges to the environment of disease, terrorism, and crime around the world. Violations of one or more of these policies can lead to economic and political sanctions. .
The crisis of the Cuban revolution has once again raised a number of security issues for the United States. Was the four-decade-old U.S. policy of containment and punishment effective? Many observers believe that the Castro regime is in its final hour (Enrique A. Baloyra). When Castro declared Cuba a socialist state on April 16, 1961, for the next 30 years, he pursued close relations with the Soviet Union. Relations between the U.S. and Cuba deteriorated rapidly as the Cuban regime expropriated U.S. properties and adopted a one-party Communist system. In response, the U.S. imposed an embargo on Cuba, October 1960 and severed diplomatic relations on January 3, 1961. Castro declared Cuba a Social State April 16,1961.
Tensions between the two governments and continued to grow of the next thirty years, but peaked during the October 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Tensions remained high throughout the 1970s and 1980s as Cuba expanded its military presence abroad.