external economic sanctions and their impact on Cuba's government

Abstract

It has been approximately sixty years since the U.S. Government imposed economic sanctions on the Cuban Government. The initial trigger was the decision to respond to the expropriations carried out by the Cuban State of companies belonging to U.S. citizens or companies, a process that intensified at the end of June 1960 and led to a harsh confrontation during the second half of 1960. The fundamental reason for imposing the sanctions, however, was to provoke a change of political regime in Cuba and to impose an additional cost on the Soviet Union for its decision to support the revolutionary government in Cuba, which had come to power in January 1959.

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