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Resources on the Web
U.S. STATE DEPT. Documents, press releases, official statements and fact sheets. The ins and outs of stipulations pertaining to travel to Cuba for United States citizens.
KENNEDY ADMINISTRATION The National Security Agency's archive of declassified documents on the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Aerial photos of Soviet missile bases in Cuba, taken in 1962 by USAF U-2 reconnaissance aircraft – plus links to crucial documents from the Federation of American Scientists. Volume X documents the most important issues in foreign policy, 1961 to 1963, of the administration of John F. Kennedy. The Foreign Relations of the United States series provide the official record of major foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity of the U.S. government.
ECONOMY A PDF file explaining the United States economic embargo from the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Treasury Department. Full text of the Helms-Burton Act from THOMAS legislative database. Enacted in 1996, the measure allows U.S. companies and citizens to sue foreign companies that invest in expropriated property in Cuba and requires the government to deny entry into the United States to executives of foreign companies that invest in such property. The Cuban Democracy Act, introduced by Rep. Robert J. Torricelli (D-N.J.), forbids foreign subsidiaries of American companies to trade with Cuba and closes U.S. ports to ships that have called in Cuba within six months.
HUMAN RIGHTS
OPPOSITION Concilio Cubano is a coalition of human rights and political groups, lawyers, journalists, trade unionists and others, set up in October 1995. An anti-Castro human rights group of Cuban exiles in Miami. Cuban pilots in February 1996 shot down two small airplanes flown by the organization, killing four people and touching off a new round of tensions with Washington.
BOOK CREDITS "Fidel's Cuba: A Revolution in Pictures"
WEB CREDITS U.S. & World Editor Director of Photography and Design Project Editor Project Photo Editor Project Graphic Design Design and multimedia production for Cuba photo galleries Web Technical Production Bill Moss J Weis
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