{"id":2413,"date":"2000-10-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-10-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/cms\/?p=2413"},"modified":"2000-10-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-10-19T00:00:00","slug":"50210192000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/2000\/10\/19\/50210192000\/","title":{"rendered":"10\/19\/2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;October 19 [2000]. At a meeting of the International Chamber of Commerce, American businessman and ICC Vice-President Richard D. McCormic, calls for an end to the US trade embargo of Cuba. \u2018\u2026embargoes don&#8217;t work,\u2019 said McCormick. \u2018They are counterproductive; they just hurt the people who are in the least position to help themselves. I think that after 38 years it is time for this embargo to be ended. Unilateral sanctions don&#8217;t work. (Mr. McCormic serves on the boards of UAL Corporation (United Airlines), Wells Fargo and Company, United Technologies Corporation, and Concept Five Technologies.)\u201d [Con Embargo]<\/p>\n<p><em>Jerry A. Sierra, \u201cEconomic Embargo Timeline,\u201d HistoryofCuba.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;October 19 [2000]. At a meeting of the International Chamber of Commerce, American businessman and ICC Vice-President Richard D. McCormic, calls for an end to the US trade embargo of Cuba. \u2018\u2026embargoes don&#8217;t work,\u2019 said McCormick. \u2018They are counterproductive; they just hurt the people who are in the least position to help themselves. I think [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/2000\/10\/19\/50210192000\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from 10\/19\/2000<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-2413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2415,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/2000\/11\/09\/5041192000\/","url_meta":{"origin":2413,"position":0},"title":"11\/9\/2000","author":"AmarkData","date":"November 9, 2000","format":false,"excerpt":"\"November 9 [2000]. The UN [United Nations] General Assembly passes a Cuban-drafted resolution calling for an end to the US-Cuba embargo. The vote is 167 in favor, 3 against, and 4 abstentions. Voting with the US against the resolution are the Marshall Islands and Israel.\u201d [Con Embargo] Jerry A. Sierra,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;quotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"quotes","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/category\/quotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2409,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/2000\/05\/07\/498572000\/","url_meta":{"origin":2413,"position":1},"title":"5\/7\/2000","author":"AmarkData","date":"May 7, 2000","format":false,"excerpt":"\"May 7 [2000]. In a more symbolic than legal decision, Cuban courts order the US to pay $121 billion in damages for the 4-decade-long embargo.\u201d [Con Embargo] Jerry A. Sierra, \u201cEconomic Embargo Timeline,\u201d HistoryofCuba.com","rel":"","context":"In &quot;quotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"quotes","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/category\/quotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2416,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/2000\/11\/29\/50511292000\/","url_meta":{"origin":2413,"position":2},"title":"11\/29\/2000","author":"AmarkData","date":"November 29, 2000","format":false,"excerpt":"\"November 29 [2000]. A 23-member task force in the U.S., made up of liberals and conservatives, calls for an end to the embargo to \u2018help the island's transition to a post-Castro era and reduce the chances of U.S. military intervention.\u2019\u201d [Con Embargo] Jerry A. 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Timeline,\u201d Cuba versus Blockade: Cuban People\u2019s website,\u00a02007","rel":"","context":"In &quot;quotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"quotes","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/category\/quotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2320,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1993\/03\/17\/4123171993\/","url_meta":{"origin":2413,"position":5},"title":"3\/17\/1993","author":"AmarkData","date":"March 17, 1993","format":false,"excerpt":"\"The UN [United Nations] General Assembly passed a resolution on March 17, 1993 on the Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo by the United States of America against Cuba.\u201d [Con Embargo] \u201cAmerican Anthropological Association Statement on Cuban Trade Embargo,\u201d American Anthropological Association,\u00a0January 1994","rel":"","context":"In &quot;quotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"quotes","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/category\/quotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}