Posts Tagged ‘embargo’

Dutch foreign minister expects EU oil embargo against Syria on Friday

  Dutch News Thursday, September 1, 2011 Foreign minister Uri Rosenthal expects the European Union will on Friday agree to an oil embargo against Syria following the violent crack-down on pro-democracy campaigners, the Volkskrant reports. ‘The Netherlands is working towards an EU oil embargo and new EU sanctions. I think they will come into effect […]

Anti-Castro lobby keeps embargo in place

Following the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the US imposed an embargo on all trade, investment and travel with Cuba in an attempt to weaken the communist government of Fidel Castro. On August 13, Castro celebrated his 85th birthday and critics say that the embargo designed to oust him as instead hurt average Cubans for decades. […]

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