NY GOVERNOR CUOMO RELEASED THIS FOLLOWUP: " TRADE MISSION TO CUBA HELPS CONNECT NEW YORK BUSINESSES TO NEW OPPORTUNITIES
Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Infor, announce agreements for new business partnerships in Cuba
Governor meets with Cuba's First Vice President, Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment, and other officials to discuss new economic opportunities between New York and Cuba
Why did Andrew Cuomo and his political cronies visit Cuba? What was the clear benefit for New York State? The Governor previously prevented official NY business trips to Indiana, where the Governor signed a bill allowing gays to be denied services, but then visits Cuba, where gays were thrown in jail.
¿Cuómo se dice flip flop en Español?
US removes Cuba from state sponsor of terror list. The following timeline is more specific of this strange evolution.
1960: US breaks off diplomatic relations and imposes trade embargo.
1961: US backs failed Bay of Pigs invasion; Castro calls Cuba a communist state and begins to ally with USSR.
1962: Fearing US invasion, Castro allows USSR to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba. Superpowers brink of war.
1980: Around 125,000 Cubans, many prisoners, flee to the US when Castro temporarily lifts restrictions
The Chief of the Cuban Interests Section José Ramón Cabañas and New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo have announced the first official state trade mission to Cuba since President Obama began the process to normalize diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba.
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Maryland Representative Chris Van Hollen returned from Cuba with Alan Gross and a new US strategy of engagement with Cuba:
For over 50 years, US officials have tried to bring about positive change and reform in Cuba by attempting to isolate the island nation. It is clear that policy has been a miserable failure. Over the last five decades, the Castro brothers have outlasted over eight American presidents and very little has changed. The oft-cited definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
The governments of US and Cuba are paving the way for a massive overhaul in their political policies.
For more than five decades, US has kept an economic embargo on Cuba, but all of this is now changing under the Obama administration. Today President Obama begins a broad range of diplomatic and regulatory measures that are considered the most sweeping change in U.S. policy toward Cuba since the 1961 embargo was imposed.
In 1959, Fidel Castro rose to power in Cuba. He has been one of the most controversial figures in the world ever since.
History Will Absolve Me" is the concluding sentence and subsequent title of a four-hour speech made by Fidel Castro on 16 October 1953. Castro made the speech in his own defense in court against the charges brought against him after leading an attack on the Moncada Barracks. Though no record of Castro's words was kept, he reconstructed them later for publication in what was to become the manifesto of his 26th of July Movement
Today marks the 52nd anniversary of the US embargo on Cuba. This communist island nation is the only one-party state in the western hemisphere.
The embargo, known among Cubans as "El Bloqueo" or "The Blockade," consists of economic sanctions against Cuba and restrictions on Cuban travel and commerce for all people and companies under US jurisdiction.
The Town of Cuba lies upon the west border of Allegany County, south of the center and was first organized from the Town of Friendship on February 4, 1822. It was formerly known as township 3, range 2 of the Holland Land Purchase. On November 11, 1850, the incorporated Village of Cuba, situated wholly within the township, was organized.