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We call for a weapons embargo.
Jill Stein / Physician
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Weapons
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Did you know that..........'embargo' spelled backwards is 'o grab me
Colin Mochrie / Actor
Backwards
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Knows
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Well, I know that 500,000 children died in Iraq because of the embargo.
Jacques Verges / Lawyer
Children
Died
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Iraq
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The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.
Bianca Jagger / Actress
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Nicaragua
Weakening
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Maintained
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There is one source of injustice in Cuba: The Castro regime. It is not United States policies and it is not the United States embargo.
Bob Menendez / United States Senator
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Cuba
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Policies
Regime
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The U.S. trade embargo on Cuba is almost completely ineffective, as many other countries, including the European Union, do not honor it.
Robert Zubrin / Author
Cuba
Embargo
European Union
Honor
Other Countries
European
Ineffective
Union
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I can tell the negotiators, please, when you consider all the options, do not be constrained by the risk of an oil embargo on Iranian oil.
Claude Mandil / Engineer
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Oil
Risk
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One of the achievements of which I am most proud was the codification, the writing into U.S. law, of the U.S. embargo on the Castro dictatorship.
Lincoln Diaz-Balart / Former U.s. Representative
Achievement
Castro
Dictatorship
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Writing
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Fourth, we might have declared an embargo against the shipping from American ports of any merchandise to either one of these governments that persisted in maintaining its military zone.
George William Norris /
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Fourth
Maintaining
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Military
Shipping
Zone
Governments
Ports
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Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies.
Paul Berg / Scientist
Technology
Disease
Drug
Embargo
Treatment
Diseases
Exists
Paradoxically
Revolutionized
Technologies
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Hostility toward Iran may not be the silliest of all American foreign policies - that would probably be the continuing trade embargo of Cuba - but it is undoubtedly the most self-defeating.
Stephen Kinzer / Author
Continuing
Cuba
Embargo
Hostility
Iran
Trade
Policies
Self-Defeating
Silliest
Undoubtedly
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When you look at the Lebanon-Syria border, you see a porous border despite the fact that you have a U.N. Security Council decision that speaks of an embargo on weapons transfers to Hezbollah.
Tzipi Livni / Former Minister Of Justice Of Israel
Council
Embargo
Security Council
Weapons
Border
Speaks
Transfer
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In 1962, President Kennedy expanded an earlier trade embargo put in place by a predecessor, President Eisenhower, to a total economic blockade, which pushed the Cubans further in Moscow's direction.
Tariq Ali / Writer
Cuban
Embargo
Moscow
President Kennedy
Earlier
Eisenhower
Further
Predecessor
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When Colonel Gadhafi started using his air force against civilians on the ground, we did not hesitate. Then we supported the resolution of the Security Council, which introduced arms embargo for Libya.
Sergei Lavrov /
Air Force
Arms
Civilians
Council
Embargo
Libya
Resolution
Security Council
Colonel
Hesitate
Introduced
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Let's be honest: The trade embargo with Cuba hasn't secured our interests or helped the Cuban people. Because the way to promote positive change and better human rights in Cuba is through engagement, not isolation.
Amy Klobuchar / United States Senator
Cuba
Embargo
Engagement
Human Rights
Isolation
Positive Change
Secured
Promote
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Every Palestinian family feels the effects of the international embargo. But the more the pressure on the government grows, the more support we receive, both from the Palestinian street and from the Arab and Islamic world.
Ismail Haniyeh / Former Prime Minister Of The Palestinian National Authority
Government
Effects
Embargo
Grows
International
Islamic
Palestinian
Support
Arab
Islamic World
Receive
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In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was extended to a mandatory embargo in 1977. And that was followed by economic sanctions and other measures - sometimes officials, countries, cities, towns - some organized by popular movements.
Noam Chomsky / Linguist
Arms
Cities
Council
Embargo
Officials
Organized
Sanctions
Security Council
South Africa
Towns
Africa
Extended
Followed
Mandatory
Measures
Movements
Voluntary
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The embargo doesn't affect the United States, not even minimally; all of Cuba's economy is smaller than that of Miami-Dade County, and the ones who suffer the most are Cubans. If you talk to them in the street, they're the ones most interested in the opening of a free market in their country.
Jorge M. Perez / Real Estate Development
County
Cuba
Embargo
Free Market
Opening
Affect
Smaller
Suffer
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I think the most difficult thing that has had to happen in South Africa for the previously disadvantaged communities is they had to reconcile that the oppressor has been enriched and the establishment is now making five or 10 times more profit than they were during the time the economic embargo was on them.
Hugh Masekela / Trumpeter
Disadvantaged
Economic
Embargo
Establishment
Profit
Reconcile
South
South Africa
Africa
Communities
Difficult Thing
Enriched
Most Difficult Thing
Oppressor
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And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They abstained in the 1947 UN partition resolution... They maintained an arms embargo against us in the 1950s... They always worked against us. They think the Arabs are the underdogs.
Shimon Peres / President Of Israel
Arms
Embargo
England
Establishment
Partition
Resolution
Thinking
Underdog
Among
Arabs
Deeply
Maintained
Un
Underdogs
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