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Sanctions

United States of America · Government / Republican Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

4Records
1982–2006Date range
3Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1982

Ronald Wilson Reagan19 April 1982

Government / Republican Party Government

President Ronald Reagan reinstates the trade embargo with Cuba

1991

George Herbert Walker Bush10 July 1991

Government / Republican Party Government

President Bush lifts economic sanctions against South Africa, citing its "profound transformation" toward racial equality

2004

George Walker Bush24 October 2004

Government / Republican Party Government

Illegal for US Citizens to have transactions (spend money or receive gifts) in Cuba under most circumstances without a US Government Office of Foreign Assets Control issued license

2006

George Walker Bush10 October 2006

Government / Republican Party Government

The US announces the creation of a task force made up of officials from several US agencies that will pursue more aggressively violators of the US trade embargo against Cuba, with severe penalties

Names involved

George Herbert Walker BushGeorge Walker BushRonald Wilson Reagan

Provenance

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