Obama Renews Cuba Embargo for Another Year

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Edit to add cartoon and details of the Trading with the Enemy Act.





Anya Landau FrenchDirector, US-Cuba Policy Initiative - New America Foundation and editor, TheHavanaNote.com

Posted: September 3, 2010 10:47 AM

Well, I can't say it was any big surprise. Yesterday, President Obama renewed his authority under the otherwise defunct Trading with the Enemy Act (TWEA) of 1917, which would have otherwise expired on September 14, 2010. In plain English, President Obama renewed the U.S. embargo on Cuba for another year.

Story (English)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anya-landau-french/obama-renews-cuba-embargo_b_704804.html


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Which reminds me of one of BO's famous flip-flops on Cuba between 2004 when he was a senator and 2007 when as a presidential candidate he was kissing Cuban-Americans' butt for their vote in South Florida.

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The Cuba embargo;
In January 2004, Obama said it was time "to end the embargo with Cuba" because it had "utterly failed in the effort to overthrow Castro." Speaking to a Cuban American audience in Miami in August 2007, he said he would not "take off the embargo" as president because it is "an important inducement for change."

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La ley contra el Comercio con el Enemigo, data de 1917 y se aprobó con vistas a la entrada de Estados Unidos en la Primera Guerra Mundial.

The Trading with the Enemy Act dates back to 1917 and was passed in view of the impending entry of the United States into World War I.

Cuba es el único país del mundo sujeto a las sanciones de la Ley contra el “Comercio con el enemigo”, después de que en 2008 la Administración del presidente George W. Bush optara por no renovar la aplicación de la medida a Corea del Norte, en respuesta al acuerdo de Pyongyang de divulgar detalles de su programa nuclear.

Cuba is the only country in the world subject to the law's sanctions after the Dubya Bush administration in 2008 opted to not renew its application against North Korea in response to Pyongyang's agreement to provide details of its nuclear program.

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So much for "change" that was so touted by the BO campaign.

[Flatulo]

1. Very disappointing. This makes no sense.

[Mika]

2. I'm shocked! SHOCKED, I tell ya.

NOT!

When told us that the embargo would remain as long as he's president during the campaign for president (in Miami) I believed him.

Obama Flip Flops on Cuban Embargo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OjOQ6xz1b8

When Barack Obama wasn't running for president he was against the embargo on Cuba.
Now that he is the presumptive Democratic nominee he chastises other candidates for
pandering. But presidential candidate Obama now believes in the Cuban embargo...

When speaking to Cuban-Americans, of course.

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[naaman fletcher]

3. Very disappoiting.

I didn't expect full liberalization, but at least a half-measure.

[Billy Burnett]

5. Looks like Mr Obama stuck to his guns on this one.

Single payer/ public option health care - nope.

Middle class job creation/ return of manufacturing - nope.

Bail out for small businesses - nope.

Maintaining the US sanctions on Cuba and keeping the American travel ban - Y E S.


Go figure. :puke:

[EFerrari]

4. .

[Judi Lynn]

6. He fears the right-wing more than he respects the American majority

of citizens who believe that damned embargo is WRONG and should be ended.

This move attempts to condone the ethical crime the embargo is, known throughout the world as being absolutely illegal in international law, as well as a vicious level of economic purely political warfare against a country which has utterly rejected the goverment it had until 1959.