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Byron L. Dorgan, US Senator from South Dakota, on May 21, 2002:
“We have a good many American farmers who need to find a foreign home for their product. We sell that product to China, a communist government. We sell it to Vietnam, a communist government. But we are told somehow that we ought not to encourage sales of food to Cuba. As I indicated, I don’t think Fidel Castro has ever missed a meal because of our embargo. I don’t believe he missed a meal in 40 years because we couldn’t ship US food to Cuba or they couldn’t purchase food from the United States. But I think poor, sick, and hungry people in Cuba are the victims of these policies, and I personally believe that it is immoral to use food as a weapon.”
Senator Barbara Boxer, on May 21, 2002:
“Castro can’t eat all the food. OK? He talks too long at dinner.”
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One of the few things that Nixon and Kennedy could agree on was Cuba, including the invasion at Bay of Pigs and the economic embargo.
More On The Embargo Against Cuba
Embargo Timeline | What you need to know about the embargo - from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) | United States Interests Section in Havana |
Free PDF Files:
The Embargo Timeline | The United Nations Vote on the Embargo | What they say...
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