Cuba marks 60 years of US sanctions

By Agence France-Presse

Feb 08, 2022 12:35 am

HAVANA: Cuba on Monday marks 60 years under a US economic blockade that has deeply affected the communist nation's fortunes and shows no signs of being lifted.

Decreed by US president John F. Kennedy on February 3, 1962, the embargo on all bilateral trade came into effect four days later.

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