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Just as “The Song Remains the Same”, “The question remains the same.”The embargo has been in place for nearly 50 years (with the exception of a couple years in the 1970s)...yet the Castros are still there. Even if you believe that Cuba's government is the embodiment of evil, and the righteous United States needs to do everything in its power to bring it down, you're still faced with the practical argument: the embargo obviously hasn't worked.
Namely: What Embargo?
Webster's defines "embargo" as "a government order imposing a trade barrier." As a verb it's defined as, "to prevent commerce."
Yet according to figures from the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. transacted $730 million with Cuba in 2008