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Eisenhower Approves
President Eisenhower approves a convert action plan against Cuba that includes the use of "powerful propaganda campaign" designed to overthrow Castro -
Foreign Assistance
U.S. Congress passes The Foreign Assistance Act. Prohibits aid to Cuba and authorizes the President to create a "total embargo upon all trade" with Cuba. -
President Kennedy
President Kennedy broadens the partial trade restrictions imposed by Eisenhower to ban all trade with Cuba, except for non-subsidized sale of foods and medicines. -
Travel to Cuba
Kennedy prohibits travel to Cuba and makes financial and commercial transactions with Cuba illegal for U.S citizens. -
Edward M. Kennedy
U.S. government urged, by Edward M. Kennedy, to lift the embargo and normalize relations with Cuba. -
President Reagan
U.S. president Reagan bans travel to the U.S. by Cuban government or Communist Party officials or their represntatives. It also bans most students, scholars, and artists. -
UNGA
For the third consecutive year, the United Nations General Assembly votes overwhelmingly for a measure to end the U.S. Embargo of Cuba. The votes are 101-2, with 48 abstentions, and only Isreal votes with the U.S. -
UNGA
By a vote of 137-3, the United Nations General Assembly recommends, for the fifth year in a row, that the U.S. end the embargo against Cuba. -
Muhammad Ali
After returning home from a Cuban visit, ex world boxing champion, Muhammad Ali calls for an end to the trade embargo against Cuba. -
United Nations General Assembly
The UN General Assembly passes a Cuban-drafted resolution calling for an end to the US-Cuba embargo. The vote is 167 in favor, 3 against, and 4 abstentions. Voting with the US against the resolution are the Marshall Islands and Israel. -
Washington
In Washington, the 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. Most agree with the decision to reunite Elián González with his father in Cuba. -
House of Reps
In Washington, the US House of Representatives votes 262 to 167 to end the travel ban and allow the sale of American goods to Cuba. 73 Republicans vote against the embargo. -
US Travel
About 3 dozen US travel industry executives spend the day in Cuba to consider "future business potential." At the end of the day they return to a resort in Cancun, Mexico, where the first US-Cuba travel conference is held. -
Lawmakers
A number of U.S. lawmakers and food firms meet in Havana. By the end of the week, Cuba has agreed to purchase about $125 million in farm goods from U.S. companies. -
Michael B. Enzi
US Senator Michael B. Enzi introduces the "Freedom to "Travel to Cuba Act" on the floor of the senate: "If you keep on doing what you have always been doing," he says, "you are going to wind up getting what you already got. …We are not hurting the Cuban government; we are hurting the Cuban people. …It is time for a different policy."
