Cuban embargo
Caribbean trade restriction
The Cuban embargo is a U.S. trade and travel restriction on Cuba, imposed in 1962 following the Cuban Revolution and Fidel Castro's alignment with the Soviet Union.
Also called the Cuba embargo or simply the embargo in relevant contexts.
Critics call it el bloqueo (the blockade).
It remains one of the longest-standing embargoes in modern history, restricting most commercial, economic, and financial transactions between the two countries.
- Bay of PigsFailed 1961 invasion site
- trade sanctionsRestrictions on international commerce
- Fidel CastroCuban revolutionary dictator
- Cold WarProlonged East-West standoff
- remittancesPayments sent abroad
family separation · human rights violations · Guantanamo Bay · food shortages · sugar industry · import restrictions · black market · export controls · executive orders · Soviet Union · ideological conflict · regime change · foreign investment · dollar diplomacy · John F. Kennedy · economic isolation · Nikita Khrushchev · travel ban
- Cold WarBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, arms race, Warsaw Pact, Eastern Bloc
- Cuba-US RelationsBay of Pigs, normalization, rapprochement, diplomatic ties, Guantanamo Bay
- Latin America PolicyMonroe Doctrine, NAFTA, USMCA, Pan-Americanism, gunboat diplomacy
Cuban embargofree trade
Unrestricted international exchange
open trade · free trade agreement · economic integration · tariff reduction · trade deal
Cuban embargorapprochement
Reestablishment of harmonious relations
détente · diplomatic engagement · thaw · diplomatic recognition · reconciliation
Cuba, Cuban, Cubans, embargo, embargoes, embargoed, embargoing