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The U.S. embargo against Cuba was imposed by the United States on February 3 1962 as a response to Cuba's alignment with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. While the US government had initially been supportive of the Cuban Revolution it turned against Fidel Castro when the Cuban government began implementing large scale nationalization of the economy without compensating American businesses that had been expropriated. The embargo remains in place to this day and has been the target of international criticism including annual votes in the United Nations General Assembly in which resolutions calling on the US to lift its sanctions pass with large majorities (173 to 3 in 2002).
The embargo was re-enforced in October 1992 by the Cuban Democracy Act and the Helms-Burton Act of 1996. While the US has sought to normalize trade relations with other Communist states such as the People's Republic of China and Vietnam there is a large lobby among Cuban-Americans, particularly those living in Florida, in favour of the embargo which makes it politically difficult for either the US Republican Party or the US Democratic Party to substantially change American policy towards Cuba.
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