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"Baseball is not judged by the price of the athletes, but the heart of the people," ... Cuban outfielder Frederich Cepeda,
kid said:And the heart of the Cuban people will not be broken by decades of hostilities in the form of sanctions led by their northern neighbors and to be more precise, the Republican Party.
oldreliable67 said:kid,
You're still flunking...
February 7, 1962: President Kennedy broadens the partial trade restrictions imposed by Eisenhower to a ban on all trade with Cuba, except for non-subsidized sale of foods and medicines.
March 23, 1962: President Kennedy expands the Cuban embargo to include imports of all goods made from or containing Cuban materials, even if made in other countries.
August 1, 1962: The Foreign Assistance Act is amended to prohibit aid to "any country" that provides assistance to Cuba.
October 2, 1962: The U.S. government cables all Latin American governments and NATO countries new measures to tighten the economic embargo against Cuba. As of today, the transport of U.S. good is banned on ships owned by companies that do business with Cuba.
February 8, 1963: The Kennedy administration prohibits travel to Cuba and makes financial and commercial transactions with Cuba illegal for U.S. citizens.
May 14, 1963: The U.S. Department of Commerce announces the requirement of specific approval for exports of all food and medicine to Cuba.
November 17, 1963: President Kennedy asks French journalist Jean Daniel to tell Castro that he is now ready to negotiate normal relations and drop the embargo. According to former Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, "If Kennedy had lived I am confident that he would have negotiated that agreement and dropped the embargo because he was upset with the way the Soviet Union was playing a strong role in Cuba and Latin America…"
December, 1963: The Foreign Assistance Act is amended to prohibit U.S. aid to countries that continue to trade with Cuba.
December 12, 1963: Less than one month after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy seeks to end the travel ban to Cuba in a memo to Secretary of State Dean Rusk. He refers to the ban as "inconsistent with traditional American liberties," and difficult to enforce. The memo is not released to the public until June 29 2005.
December 13, 1963: Robert F. Kennedy's memo of December 12 is discussed at a State Department meeting (to which RFK is not invited) and Undersecretary of State George Ball rules out the possibility of ending the travel ban to Cuba. [The ban continues until 1977 when the Carter Administration opens travel to Cuba by U.S. citizens. The Reagan Administration reinstitutes the ban in 1981.]
July 26, 1964: The Organization of American States (OAS) adopts mandatory sanctions against Cuba, requiring all members to sever diplomatic and trade relations. Only Mexico refuses to comply.
July1996: "Clinton imposes anti-Cuba sanctions"...CNN
July 2000: "US Votes to Ease Cuba Sanctions"
"The US House of Representatives has voted in favour of easing sanctions against Cuba, in place since 1962, but a broader amendment that could have resulted in an end to the trade embargo was rejected. The House, with a Republican majority, voted 301 to 116 in favour of an amendment that would exempt food and medicine from the US unilateral trade embargo on Cuba."
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"Thursday's vote represents a significant shift in relations between the neighbouring countries, recently embroiled in a custody battle over six-year-old Cuban national Elian Gonzalez. The amendments represent the first time in three years that sanctions on Cuba have been voted on by the US Congress."
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KidRocks said:And the heart of the Cuban people will not be broken by decades of hostilities in the form of sanctions led by their northern neighbors and to be more precise, the Republican Party.
Indeed, the Cuban people are poor but after 50 years of isolation imposed by the great powers led by the United States they will not be denied victory over their oppressors even if it's just in the shape and structure of a simple baseball game.
And your victory will resonate and be more than just a won ballgame, it will be a victory over greed, over capitalism as was demonstrated by Team America's loss whom many could see that the American players hearts were not into the marvelous game of baseball
Victory is yours Cuba, take it and know that millions in the United States will be cheering you on. I know I will! :2wave:
Let us hope we will be celebrating VJ day tomorrow!
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2006-03-19-wbc-final-preview_x.htm
Major leaguers have minor profile in WBC final
SAN DIEGO — Two powers of international baseball will meet in the World Baseball Classic finals at Petco Park on Monday night and the rosters will contain a grand total of two major-league players.
Japan's Ichiro Suzuki may be the only player major league baseball fans will recognize in Monday night's WBC title game.
Cuba and Japan advanced with victories in the semifinals Saturday, further demonstrating the game's talent level around the globe and denting the notion of Major League Baseball's vast superiority.
"I sense that MLB is hurting a little bit," Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki, one of two major-league players on the Japan roster, said Sunday through a translator.
Japan, aided by a three-hit, two-stolen base performance from Suzuki and a scoreless inning of relief from Texas Rangers pitcher Akinori Otsuka, defeated a Korean team that had beaten it twice in the preliminary rounds 6-0.
But the major surprise of the semifinals — and the tournament — is a Cuban team thought to be decimated by political defections and retirement of players who helped it establish 20 years of dominance in international competition.
FinnMacCool said:Am I a traitor if I support Cuba?
FinnMacCool said:Am I a traitor if I support Cuba?
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