Cuba embargo: Media
Should the U.S. maintain its embargo against Cuba?
Videos
The Bay of Pigs.
News footage of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion.
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Images
Havanna, Cuba
Brightly colored cars from the 1950s, popular in Havana, where the U.S. embargo against...
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Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro on January 1, 1959, waves to a cheering crowd upon his arrival in Havana,...
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Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev.
A jovial greeting takes place between Cuba's Prime Minister Fidel Castro and the...
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John F. Kennedy
Pres. John F. Kennedy announcing on television the strategic blockade of Cuba and...
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Mariel boatlift.
The "El Dorado" boat arriving in Key West, Florida with Cuban refugees during the...
State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory (https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/98693)
Bob Menendez.
Sen. Menendez's parents immigrated to the U.S. from Cuba.
Office of U.S. Senator Robert Menendez
George W. Bush.
Bush enacted strict embargo restrictions.
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Raúl Castro.
Raúl Castro succeeded his brother, Fidel, as president of Cuba.
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Hillary Clinton
Secretary of State Clinton argued that Castro did not want to end the embargo.
U.S. Department of State
Pope Francis and Barack Obama.
The Pope helped broker a 2014 deal between the U.S. and Cuba in secret meetings held...
Pete Souza—Official White House Photo
John Kerry.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrives the Jose Marti International Airport in...
U.S. Department of State
Raul Castro and Barack Obama.
Cuba's Raul Castro walks with Barack Obama, as they inspect the guard in Revolution...
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Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge was the last U.S. President to visit Cuba (1928) before Pres. Obama...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. 3a53302u)
Donald Trump.
Trump increased restrictions on American trade and travel to Cuba.
White House photograph by Shealah Craighead/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-DIG-ppbd-00608)
Miguel Diaz-Canel (left) and Raul Castro
Former Cuban President Raul Castro raises the arm of newly elected Cuban President...
Adalberto Roque/Getty Images
Joe Biden.
Biden at first strengthened Trump's restrictions on Cuba, a departure from Obama's...
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz
J.D. Vance and Donald Trump.
The second Trump administration is following the Cuba playbook from his first term.
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