Banca de DEFESA: Maria Antonia Oliveira Duran Marins

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STUDENT : Maria Antonia Oliveira Duran Marins
DATE: 15/09/2023
TIME: 14:30
LOCAL: departamento de história
TITLE:

Economic sanctions against Cuba: the government's John Kennedy (1961-1963) and Bill Clinton (1993-1997)

KEY WORDS:

United States. Cuba. Economic blockade

PAGES: 100
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUBÁREA: História Moderna e Contemporânea
SUMMARY:

The objective of the research is to analyze the chain of facts that led the United States to dictate an economic blockade against Cuba in 1962 and its political developments since, as well as to evaluate the reasons used for its imposition and permanence after the end of the Cold War. This paper was developed taking two periods into account: the democrat government of John Kennedy (1961-1963) and Bill Clinton (first term, 1993- 1997), both which differentiate themselves in relation to the international context (Cold War and the new world order post-1989), but do share the wish to provoke an economic collapse in the Caribbean country, to overthrown the regimen initiated after the Cuban Revolution. Despite having the same interest, these administrations stood out for different reasons: the Kennedy administration for declaring the blockade in the midst of the Cold War to contain the expansion of communism in the West, after Fidel Castro spoke about the socialist character of his Revolution; and Clinton’s first term for hardening the economic sanctions with the objective of transforming that Island into a liberal democracy just like the American democracy, after the end of communist scare with the USSR’s downfall. We sought to show that the relations between United States- Cuba are more complex and profound that just a mere misunderstanding between countries in the middle of the XX Century; these divergences had great influence in the American political actions on different periods, which led to the economic blockade. The hypothesis we approach is that, despite the justificative used to legitimate the blockade, the US government was always seeking out for a single objective, to overthrow Castro´s regime.

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