Foreword
Since the early 1960s, U.S. policy toward Cuba has attemptedto isolate the island nation through a comprehensive economicand trade embargo. This embargo, which protests the repressivepolicies of Cuba’s communist president, Fidel Castro, essentiallyhas been continued by each successive presidential Administration,including the Clinton Administration. At the same time, the UnitedStates has supported democracy-building efforts in Cuba and privatehumanitarian donations to help the Cuban people.Castro has ruled Cuba since 1959, when he led the revolutionthat ousted from power the corrupt government of Fulgencio Batista.In 1960, the Castro government began nationalizing U.S. and internationallyowned property in Cuba. The United States subsequently institutedthe embargo…
