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President Eisenhower approves a plan that terminates sugar purchsases, oil deliveries and maintains embargo on Cuba.
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President Kennedy broadens the partial trade restrictions imposed by Eisenhower to a ban on all trade with Cuba, except for non-subsidized sale of foods and medicines.
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This act was amended to prohibit aid to "any country" that provides assistance to Cuba.
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President Kennedy prohibited travel to Cuba and maked financial and commercial transactions with Cuba illegal for U.S. citizens.
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The Organisation of American States adopted a mandatory sanctions against Cuba and this was later withdrawn in 1975
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President Clinton signed the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (Libertad) Act which imposed penalities on foreign comapanies doing business with Cuba.
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President Carter dropped the travel ban to Cube to impede improvemt of U.S- Cuban relations.
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Ronald Reagan was inaugurated in January and he released a hostile policy against Cuba that announced the tightening of the embargo.
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The Reagan Administration reestablishes the travel ban to Cuba allowing Fishing Accord to pass.
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Robert Torricelli introduced the Cuban Democarcy Act that would wreak havoc on the island.
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Sales of some food and agricultural products to private individuals and non-governmental organizations,
- An increase in the number of charter flights to Cuba,
- Allows anyone (not just Cuban-Americans) to send up to $1,200 per year,
- Allows major league team, the Baltimore Orioles, to arrange two exhibition games, on in Cuba, the other in the U.S., and
- Increases the amount of money a U.S. visitor can spend on the island from $100 per day to $185 per day. -
Cuba Policy Foundation releases a poll in which a majority of Americans are said to support the idea of doing business with Cuba and allowing travel to the island
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President George W. Bush establishes the Committee for Assistance to a Free Cuba, and further enforces the ban on travel to the island.
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which bans vessels from traveling to Cuban ports from U.S. ports.
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in which he seeks to lift the travel ban to Cuba. He refers to the ban as "inconsistent with traditional American liberties
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US Senator Michael B. Enzi introduces the "Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act"
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US President G.W. Bush approves $80 million to be used for "boosting democracy in Cuba although Cuba thought this was an act of aggression.
