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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUus0RinpbA&t=31s

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Reasons why the US should drop the embargo

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Reasons why the US should drop the embargo

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2) Sanctions failed to cripple Cuba's economy.

The idea was that the embargo would so devastate Cuba's economy that the government would buckle, either voluntarily surrendering to US demands or collapsing outright. Instead, the embargo has done just enough damage to make life harder for Cubans.

There's no doubt that American sanctions have hurt Cuba's economy — meaning ordinary Cubans. And Cuba isn't a wealthy country. But as the above chart shows, Cuba has still managed to maintain fairly positive economic growth for most of the last 40 years.

6) 97 percent of world governments openly oppose America's policy

One way that sanctions are supposed to put pressure on the target country is by internationally isolating it. But US sanctions have utterly failed to cut off the Cuban regime.

The UN General Assembly has voted 23 times to demand the US to end the Cuba embargo. In 2014, 188 countries voted in favor of a resolution titled "Necessity of Ending the Economic, Commercial and Financial Embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba." There are 193 countries in the entire UN.

Moreover, "Europe, Asia ,and Latin America are increasing trade with and investment in Cuba," Bruce Jentleson, a Duke University professor and former senior adviser at the State Department, wrote in an email. Cuba is in no sense a pariah state.

Contributed by Tori Ann Morgan

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-The United States should maintain the Cuba embargo because Cuba has not met the conditions required to lift it, and the US will look weak for lifting the sanctions.
-Cuba has not demonstrated a willingness to negotiate in good faith with the United States
The embargo enables the United States to apply pressure on the Cuban government to improve human rights.
-Cuban-Americans support the embargo.
-The embargo should be maintained because open travel is insufficient to promote change in Cuba. Many democratic countries already allow travel to Cuba with no results.

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Reasons why the US should drop the embargo

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a) The embargo is "hurting" people from both Cuba and the US. If they were to drop it, Cubans could get access to things like medical resources, technology, food etc because they don't have much of those things in their countries.

b) It damages them educationally. Most people would go to Cuba for medical school since they are known to have a good education system for med school.

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Video- Why the embargo should be dropped

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Video- Why the embargo should be dropped

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https://www.vox.com/2014/12/17/7408743/cuba-embargo-failed

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Reasons why the US should remove the embargo

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a)The goal of the embargo was to put pressure on the Cuban government; economic pressure that was suppose to create global anger and resistance to the government, which they thought would eventually overthrow it. But, according to a 2009 cable from the U.S. top diplomat in Havana at the time, Johnathan Farrar, that had failed to happen.

b)For 23 years, the United Nations have voted to condemn the American policy towards Cuba(the embargo). In 2014 alone, 188 out of the 193 UN members voted against the embargo in the general assembly.

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Reasons why the US should remove the embargo

a)The Cuba Democracy act of 1992 restricted the flow of medical equipment into Cuba from the United States, which meant Cubans had a more difficult time accessing medical supplies and/or attention. Despite failing to appreciably damage the Communist government's political standing, the embargo hurt ordinary humans. The lack of medical response has been linked to several disease outbreaks in the country, including an increase in TB(tuberculosis), which in fact, likely killed some Cubans.

b)The US government designated Cuba a state sponsor of terrorism in 1982, which imposed financial penalties on the Cuban government. At the time, the US accused Cuba of supporting the Spanish Basque terrorist group ETA and the FARC militants in Colombia.

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Reasons why the US should keep the  embargo in place.

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Reasons why the US should keep the  embargo in place.

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a)At the time there weren't   many private businesses, therefore any financial gains from the lifting of the embargo would go to the government and the greater population wouldn't receive any profit.

b)If the embargo was to be revoked, with Cuba's trade open, the US would have been forced to deal with a country of 'loafers' who wouldn't have any accountability.