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Cuba Embargo Has Backfired: Time to End It

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 2, 2009 1:52 PM CST

(Newser) – The Cuban embargo has failed to encourage democracy there, and the president-elect should do something about it, writes Eugene Robinson in the Washington Post. It's time to “bring five decades of counterproductive American policy toward Cuba to a definitive end.” While engagement with...   Read full story »

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