Tuesday, February 7, 2012

No cigar: Economic embargo on Cuba turns 50 (AP)

 

FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2006 file photo, a car drives past a billboard that reads in Spanish; '70 percent of Cubans have been born under the Embargo,' in Havana, Cuba. The United States economic embargo on Communist-run Cuba turned 50 on Feb. 7, 2012. Cuba updates its estimate of how much the embargo has cost it using a complicated - and some say flawed - calculus that takes into account years of interest, the end of the gold standard and other factors. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano, File)AP - When it started, American teenagers were doing "The Twist." The United States had yet to put a man into orbit around the Earth. And a first-class U.S. postage stamp cost 4 cents.

No cigar: Economic embargo on Cuba turns 50 (AP)
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:30:49 GMT

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