{"id":2493,"date":"2004-04-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/cms\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2004-04-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-30T00:00:00","slug":"5834302004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/2004\/04\/30\/5834302004\/","title":{"rendered":"4\/30\/2004"},"content":{"rendered":"

“April 30 [2004]. According to a letter sent by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to the U.S. Congress late last year (and now provided to the Associated Press) the Treasury Department had 4 full-time employees dedicated to investigating Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, and over 2 dozen assigned to investigating Cuban Embargo violations. The letter reveals that over $8 million were collected in embargo violation fines since 1994, and over 10,683 \u2018enforcement investigations\u2019 opened since 1990. Relating to terrorism, the OFAC opened 93 \u2018enforcement investigations\u2019 between 1990 and 2003.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jerry A. Sierra, \u201cEconomic Embargo Timeline,\u201d HistoryofCuba.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“April 30 [2004]. According to a letter sent by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to the U.S. Congress late last year (and now provided to the Associated Press) the Treasury Department had 4 full-time employees dedicated to investigating Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, and over 2 dozen assigned to investigating Cuban […]<\/p>\n

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The U.S. Treasury Department's Office for Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) passes a regulation that bans publication of scientific articles from regimes subject to sanctions by the U.S. government, as is Cuba.\u201d [Pro Embargo] Jerry A. 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