US Trade Embargo Has Cost Cuba $130B, UN says

A United Nations agency said on Tuesday an "unjust" U.S. financial and trade embargo on Cuba had cost the country's economy $130 billion over nearly six decades, coming up with the same estimate as the island's communist government. Although many U.S. allies join Washington in criticizing Cuba's one-party system and repression of political opponents, the United States has lost nearly all international support for the embargo since the collapse of the Soviet...

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