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The Economic War Against Cuba: A Historical and Legal Perspective on the U.S. Blockade Paperback – March 1, 2013

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It is impossible to fully understand Cuba today without also understanding
the economic sanctions levied against it by the United
States. For over fifty years, these sanctions have been upheld by
every presidential administration, and at times intensified by individual
presidents and acts of Congress. They are a key part of
the U.S. government’s ongoing campaign to undermine the Cuban
Revolution, and stand in egregious violation of international
law. Most importantly, the sanctions are cruelly designed for their
harmful impact on the Cuban people.
In this concise and sober account, Salim Lamrani explains everything
you need to know about U.S. economic sanctions against
Cuba: their origins, their provisions, how they contravene international
law, and how they affect the lives of Cubans. He examines
the U.S. government’s own official documents to expose what is
hiding in plain sight: an indefensible, vicious, and wasteful blockade
that has been roundly condemned by citizens around the
world.

Length

144
Pages
Language

EN
English
Publisher

Monthly Review Press
Publication date

2013
March 1
Dimensions

5.5 x 0.5 x 8.0
inches
ISBN-10

1583673407
ISBN-13

978-1583673409
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Salim Lamrani teaches at the University of Paris-Sorbonne Paris IV and the University of la Réunion. He is also a journalist and commentator who specializes in Cuban-American relations.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Monthly Review Press (March 1, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1583673407
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1583673409
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.5 x 8 inches

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Maureen Callahan

Excellent book on just how messed up America imperialism affects ...

Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2015

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Excellent book on just how messed up America imperialism affects a peaceful country like Cuba. Everyone go to Cuba - its great.

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Stephanie

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2014

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Great read....I wish more of the general public in the US knew this.

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M. Kurtz

A very important book.

Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2013

This book is infuriating. I mean that in a good way. It should make you angry. The book is a very short read and filled with incredibly detailed information. It clearly illustrates what most of the world (and the majority of Americans) already know, that the irrational and destructive nature of the US's blockade against Cuba is criminal and absurdly irrational. Lamrani does a great service by providing information that illustrates the truly insidiousness of the US policy toward Cuba. The details are inconceivable and infuriating. The greatest victim here, of course, is the Cuban people. Though the blockade is absurd and the "justification" for it changes each decade, depending on what the current fear catch-phrase is popular in the US media, the blockade is a horrible farce that is really an old outdated ideological grudge from one of the world's most powerful countries that is still sore about being sent home with its tail between its legs during the Bay of Pigs. Despite all these hardships, Cuba somehow has been able to maintain its universal health care and education system, despite the US's illegal attempt to destroy it. It is amazing. As an American, it is embarrassing and shameful. Read this book.

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K. Leeny

Did you think at all?

Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2013

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When you review a book of this character, the obvious problem of a political discussion comes into play eventually, so I guess I will just need to allow me to roll down that path.

Apparently it is not enough for the author that Cuba has (illegal) access to thousand of generic medicines, Intel/AMD CPUs, computers, the internet, air planes, search engines, social media and many other things invented in capitalism. The author maintains that everything that is invented in capitalism should be made available to the people of Cuba, a country that does not recognize patents, intellectual property rights, copyrights, private ownership of land, the concept of owning ones home, nor the freedom of expression and movement within its very borders. Apart from this, Cuba owes US companies substantial amounts of money in stolen property (nationalizations) and they are very likely to steal and re-engineer anything they are allowed to import as they fail to see a connection between innovation and the right of private ownership of such, nor do they understand how the former can be driven by the latter.

The US stance on Cuba is obvious. The two entities should develop and thrive separately with a minimum of interaction between the two countries. The US will not provide tourists that spend hard currency to support the communist regime, nor will it support any establishment that tries to do the same. Cuba should not be allowed to enjoy the fruits of capitalism, a system which they have wholeheartedly rejected since the 1950s.

I completely fail to see the issues of the author as they are not argued correctly. The US allows interactions with all other 190 countries on earth with some exceptions, but try to reduce co-mingling to a minimum, in other words, if you have a solid relationship with Cuba for import/export you will not be welcomed with open arms in the US.

The failure of Cuba is Cuba's failure. The people living on Cuba have no incentive to work hard, to innovate, to build businesses, to streamline operations and to prosper on their own as their system does not allow them enjoy any benefit from it. The monthly salaries of $40 is the product of communism and that is what is harmful to the Cuban people.

Overall, the book is very repetitive and refer to conventions duly signed by the US, international law, US federal/state law on almost every page, but the bottom line here is that the US has elected not to make available any US products nor products that contain US components on Cuba and vice versa.

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Ryan Mooney

A highly partisan take on the Embargo

Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2021

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I should have known from the phrasing of the title and from the Howard Zinn endorsement below that this was going to be a partisan take on the subject. The whole book is a polemic that vilifies the United States and white washes Cuba.

You'll learn almost nothing about why America imposed the embargo in the first place (they wanted Cuba to give their citizens human rights, including free elections, still true today). The first time human rights are brought up is on pg. 31. It's brought up as a 'brandished argument' by politicians in the 90's that used it to 'justify the intensification of sanctions.' That's it. And they're never mentioned again.

What you will get is a series of facts (the one's convenient to the author's arguments, leaving out the one's that aren't), structured in a way that makes the United States consistently sound unreasonable and cruel, and Cuba sound like an innocent victim, sometimes even a virtuous one. This is only my third book on the subject but I already learned almost nothing from this book and could see glaring flaws in Lamrani's portrayal.

Will be looking for better material elsewhere.

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Kukulcan

To deny a kid his well deserved prize because NIKON has US components.

Reviewed in Canada on August 11, 2022

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Some of the examples of the US persecution against a small country are so surreal.
A Cuban Kid won a prize and he couldn’t get the Camera (NIKON) because it has US components it shows how US government is out of touch with reality.

Maroma

War against Cuba is a thriller, non fiction and very real - Salim Lamrani is a world's specialist makes you discover this !

Reviewed in Canada on July 24, 2014

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Salim Lamrani is one of the seldom specialists on Cuba and the relations with United States, Europe and certain other countries.
He is one of the rare person who agreed to interview Fidel Castro. Salim Lamrani has been teaching during several years in University IV of Paris.
He is writing very interesting books about the unbalanced relations incepted by U.S. government and the anticubans from Miami.

Better than a thriller, this book will open your understanding about the cruel embargo created since the Cubans took their country through a revolution thus avoiding to remain a banana country, under the U.S. influences.
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John Val John

Jaw-droppingly informative

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 6, 2021

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A brilliant and thorough book which enraged me page after page reading about all the injustices

G.A

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada on April 19, 2015

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