embargo

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The island of 9.6 million inhabitants, under a US trade embargo since 1962, has for years been mired in a severe economic crisis marked by extended power cuts and shortages of fuel, medicine and food.

From Barron's

Among them might be the gradual lifting of the U.S. embargo, a crucial step if Cuba is to open up its economy.

From The Wall Street Journal

Despite imposition of the US trade embargo in 1962, Cuba had eight power plants built in the 1980s and 1990s.

From Barron's

Like the new minerals reserve, the petroleum stockpile dates to a foreign supply shock—the Arab oil embargo of the 1970s.

From The Wall Street Journal

Cuba, which has largely been under a US embargo since 1962, until recently received most of its oil from Venezuela.

From Barron's