September 10th 2016

Name : Selviana Dewi

Class :A
Semester : 1 (one)

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Cuba says Obama's easing of embargo hasn't

helped economy
Michael Weissenstein | Associated Press | Havana
Sat, September 10 2016 | 09:06 am

A woman wearing a dress with a U.S. flag motif walks to a concert by Silvio Rodriguez in Guanabacoa
on the outskirts of Havana, Cuba, on Sept. 9, 2016. President Barack Obama's easing of the U.S.
trade embargo on Cuba has had virtually no positive effect on the island's economy, Cuba's top
diplomat asserted Friday.(Associated Press/Ramon Espinosa)

President Barack Obama's easing of the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba has had virtually
no positive effect on the island's economy, Cuba's top diplomat asserted Friday. Presenting
Cuba's annual report ahead of a U.N. vote on condemning the embargo, Foreign Minister
Bruno Rodriguez said the sanctions cost his country $4.6 billion last year. The total cost of
the 55-year-old embargo now stands at $125.9 billion, he added.

The presentation of Cuba's update on the embargo is an annual ritual driving home to
a mostly domestic audience Havana's message that U.S. sanctions are to blame for most of
the country's problems. The report contains a detailed accounting of both specific damage
from the embargo, such as U.S. government fines on Cuba's business partners, and scenarios
in which Cuba faults the U.S. for the loss of hypothetical business. For example the report
estimates that Cuba could sell 2.5 million cases of Havana Club rum in the United States each
year and factors in that theoretical lost revenue, $105 million, to the total damages in the
report.

Rodriguez praised Obama for allowing easier U.S. travel to Cuba, permitting
commercial flights and attempting to ease financial transactions with Cuba, among other
measures. However, he said, "there's been no fundamental change in the application of the
blockade, and because of that, I can say, there hasn't been a greater economic impact of the
executive actions until now and there won't be until we see bigger steps."Rodriguez
acknowledged the problems of Cuba's centrally controlled economy, which is struggling to
increase productivity in the face of an outdated and inefficient bureaucracy and low state
salaries that lead many employees to steal from their workplaces or accept small bribes in
order to get by.

"No one's ignoring or aims to hide our problems, our limitations, our mistakes," he
said. "But neither can we diminish the impact of the blockade."The United Nations votes next
month on an annual resolution on condemning the embargo that usually passes with
overwhelming support. Last year the United States considered abstaining for the first time,
before voting against it. As reporters were leaving Rodriguez's press conference at the Cuban
Foreign Ministry, U.S. Charge d'Affaires Jeffrey DeLaurentis' car was seen dropping him off.
U.S. and Cuban diplomats have begun meeting frequently on a wide array of topics since the
declaration of detente on Dec. 17, 2014. (ags)

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