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In order to end the embargo, the Congress specifically has to take action as required in the Helms-Burton Act. Once again President Obama signed an extension of the sanctions against the Castro brothers’ tyrannical military regime. They deserve it.Obama Extends Cuba Embargo One Year
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/14/obama-extends-cuba-embarg_n_286154.html
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has extended the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba for one year, the White House said in a statement released on Monday.
The extension was expected and has been the practice of all U.S. presidents dating to the 1970s under a section of the so-called "Trading With the Enemy Act."
Obama extended the embargo even though he has made reaching out to old U.S. foes a key plank in his foreign policy.
There have been signs of a possible thaw in U.S.-Cuban ties since Raul Castro early last year took over as president from his ailing brother Fidel. Fidel Castro had held the post since heading the revolution that ousted the U.S.-backed Batista regime on Jan. 1, 1959