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US Official: Embargo Kept Cuba From Meddling

Policy starved Castro's military of funds

By Caroline Zimmerman,  Newser User

Posted Sep 20, 2007 6:05 PM CDT

(Newser) – The decades-old US trade embargo against Cuba has been "an absolute and resounding success," the Cuban-born US commerce secretary said today. Carlos Gutierrez told a Latin America conference that the policy has stopped the island's communist government from orchestrating military attacks. But the...   Read full story »

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