Can you tell me the real reason why the US cut off Cuba??

Question

Ok from my understanding Cuba used to be cool with the USA right? What is the real reason the US cut Cuba off?? Cuba is not trying to hurt the US so why do they act like its a terrorist country. I heard it had something to do with Cuba not allowing "Americanization". ???

Answer 1

Because the US only likes countries that are open to Americanization, meaning those countries that allow big corporations to steal the poor peoples land.

Any country that does not allow Americanization is automatically called a terrorist country.

The US was very happy because Cuba was Pretty much owned by the US. united fruit company, but the poor Cubans were very upset, so they fought back, and Castro took power.

Castro then kicked the US. corporations and  the old corrupt Cuban government out (they now live in Miami) , and gave the land back to the poor people, well the USA didn't like that one bit and tried to kill Castro hundreds of times, but he was too clever, and so the US imposed an Embargo instead, hoping to starve the Cuban people into submission.

It didn't work :)

Answer 2

Money and Pride. When Fidel got the power of Cuba He started to seize american companies and the relationship worsen with the Cuban Missile Crisis. At this moment they ajust an example to latin america of what happens if you mess with USA. The sad part is that the people of cuba are the one who suffer. Fidel, and now Raul and friends are said to be billioners.

Answer 3

The real reason ? Because Fidel divorced Mirta Diaz-Balart and her relatives never forgave him.

Answer 4

Many factors, but a big on was that back in 1963 Cuba was best buddies with the Soviet Union.  The Soviet Union was very hostile towards the U.S. Castro was recieving all kinds of MONEY and military supplies from the Soviet Union, so when the Soviets wanted to place INTERCONTINENTAL ballistic missiles on Cuban soil and point them directly at the U.S., Castro let them.  At that time, I lived in the part of the U.S. those missiles were aimed at.  The U.S. got genuinely ticked off at Cuba...wouldn't you too...if those missiles were aimed at your house and in 3 minutes or less your community could be wiped off the face of the earth?   The U.S.stood up to Castro, who eventually removed the missiles...but the U.S. has never forgotten this threat and never forgiven  Castro. Then,of course, there is the little matter of CASTRO holding the Cuban people prisioners on their own island, and so many of them dying while trying to escape.  Until Cuba allows her own people to be free, the U.S. is not going to do anything to help the country  econonically. We never thought Castro would stay in power sooooo long. Communism has failed almost .everywhere else...and one day it will fail in Cuba too

Answer 5

The economic sanctions placed on Cuba by the USA were because Fidel Castro "nationalized without compenstation" Billions worth of property that belonged to US corportations in 1960.  It was armed robbery on a grand scale. and Cuba still has not atoned for the crime.

The missle crisis was later (1962).

Answer 6

fidel castro

Answer 7

vybes souljah has it right.  it's all about money.  the cuban revolution nationalized properties "owned" by us business.  nevermind that many of those businesses were organized crime, nor that the us corporations were responsible for keeping batista in office and the average cuban in virtual serfdom.

there are now similar issues with the government of venezuela for thew exact same thing.

Answer 8

For confiscating all of the US corporate owned property in Cuba....

Even now-- the US keeps saying that every 6 months they've been holding off court cases being brought against Cuba for the confiscation of US property.....  The U.S. companies were especially upset about not being compensated for the investment in the Cuban Railway company that they built... The companies realised there's no way possible to get that investment back unless they go into Cuba and rip-up all of the railways they made (which would cost them more money.)

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Basic Facts on the "Helms-Burton Act"  

Link: http://www.cubavsbloqueo.cu/Default.aspx...

· Title: "Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act of 1996" (LIBERTAD Act)

· Date of approval by President Clinton: March 12, 1996

· Date of approval by the Senate: March 5, 1996 (74 to 22 with 4)

· Date of approval by the House: March 6, 1996 (336 to 86 with 11)

· Sponsors: Senate: Jesse Helms (Republican - North Carolina)

House of Representatives: Dan Burton (Republican - Indiana)

BACKGROUND

Due to electoral pressures by the then Presidential Candidate William Clinton, on October 23, 1992, President Bush signed the "Cuban Democracy Act" or "Torricelli" Act, which added further restrictions to the U.S. blockade against Cuba in place since 1961. This legislation banned all trade by subsidiaries of American companies with Cuba and refused entry to American ports to those vessels which had previously called on Cuban ports, in times of euphoria because of the collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe and the belief of the fall of the Cuban Revolution.

In the face of the continuity of the revolutionary process and of the symptoms of economic recovery, the Cuban-American right wing from Miami and the most conservative U.S. political sectors increased their pressures to take more effective measures, primarily against foreign investments in Cuba. The "Helms-Burton" Bill emerged from such interest, which is the blend of several legislations introduced in Congress between 1994 and 1995, mainly by Cuban-American Representatives Ileana Ross, Lincoln Díaz-Balart and Robert Menéndez.

The Act shows, clearer than ever before, the real objectives of such hostile policy since 1959 and that such policy responds to the interests of the Batista high bourgeoisie, who felt affected by a Revolution committed to national independence and social justice.

PURPOSES

Their promoters have intended, from the POLITICAL standpoint, to perpetuate the climate of hostility of U.S policy against Cuba, to forcefully destroy the Cuban Revolution. From the ECONOMIC standpoint, their purpose is to intimidate foreign businessmen by every possible means with a view to prevent investments and international trade with Cuba.

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Title III: Protection of Property Rights of U.S. Nationals.

Contravening international law, this act sets forth the right of American citizens to file lawsuits in U.S. courts against any foreign citizen "trafficking" with "U.S. properties" in Cuba, which could triple the value of their property. The law defines as "U.S. properties" those properties nationalized by the Cuban government after January 1st, 1959. The term "traffic" includes investments made on those properties and, even, their expansion thereafter, as well as "benefiting" from that property. Moreover, it prohibits to any U.S. court to make a determination on the merits of that action based on the "Act of State Doctrine", an internationally recognized principle that legitimates the Cuban nationalization process.

The Act gives the President the authority to waive the effective date of this title and the rights of action it establishes for 6 months, reporting to Congress that it is in favor of democracy in Cuba and that it is in the national security interest of the U.S . Either of the two suspensions can be indefinitely implemented for additional periods of six months each.

Title VI: Exclusion of Certain Aliens.

It gives permission to the Secretary of State and the Attorney General to deny a visa or to exclude from the U.S. territory those who "traffic" in "U.S. properties", as well as their spouse, minor child or agent, as stated in Title III.

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If Cuba becomes accepted by the US the U.S. will force that new Cuban government and the Cuban people to give the United States reparations for everything Revolution took from U.S. companies.  look at the Iraqis...  They have to pay the U.S. companies back now.....