Cuba is less than 100 miles off the coast of Florida. A flight from Miami would take less than 30 minutes. However, that is not possible. If Americans want to travel to Cuba they need to either have a special visa or leave from another country, because regular flights between Cuba and the United States are non-existent. The US had many investments in Cuba when Fidel Castro and his guerrilla warfare took over Cuba in 1959. Therefore the U.S. was no longer able to steal from Cuba. The U.S. responded by imposing a partial trade embargo against Cuba on October 19th, 1960 (Simon 6). On February 3rd 1962 the US government declared a total embargo on the Republic of Cuba (Simons 6).
Fidel Castro analyzed the purpose of the economic blockade on Cuba's Televisión- Revolución : "This action is aimed against the Revolution's achievement and savings... it is an attack on the people, an attempt to keep us from having more schools, teachers, roads, houses, and universities.
Fidel Castro becomes the leader of Cuba as a resul...
Fidel Castro, president of Cuba, at a meeting of t...
English: Official Cuban Government photo of Presid...It is an attempt to obstruct our work of training our young people and giving them scholarships, of building factories so there will be jobs and of developing agriculture... Now, they're planning something else, thinking that, if they cause economic difficulties, they'll get the people's support. That's how they think the people will react to their tactic of 'I make you go hungry and have a hard time: and, because I'm not content with having exploited you for 50 years, with having taken away your minerals and having multiplied my wealth through your work - because, with those investments, I tripled and quadrupled what I'd invested there - with having limited your sovereignty and imposed an amendment on you after you thought you were free that enabled me to intervene in your country;...