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The oil embargo will not be fully implemented for 10 weeks, due to the delay that Italy requested to allow its companies to adjust to the embargo's terms.

Sanctions Won't End Syria's Repression Hicham El Moussaoui 2011

The document says Israeli officials repeatedly confirmed the embargo's goal was to keep Gaza's economy functioning "at its lowest possible level without getting a humanitarian crisis."

WikiLeaks: Israeli Blockade Aimed to Weaken Gaza Economy 2011

This delay limits the embargo's intended effect: It will allow the regime to adapt, but it also sends an ambiguous signal to the Syrian people—that although Europeans say they want to help, they are also careful to protect their own interests first, even as Assad's repression machine grinds on.

Sanctions Won't End Syria's Repression Hicham El Moussaoui 2011

And while Israel had hoped to defend its tight blockade of Hamas-ruled Gaza with Monday's high-seas raid, it instead appeared to be hastening the embargo's demise, judging by initial international condemnation.

Israeli Raid: 'Bloody, Bungled Takeover' Deepens Israel's Isolation 2010

Castro stepped down and the trade embargo's to Cuba were loosened AND that's OK ... but talking to Cuba about reconciliation is not?

In radio ad, McCain jabs Obama on Cuba talks 2008

Last year, Amnesty International, one of the Cuban government's staunchest human rights critics, but also one of the U.S. embargo's staunchest opponents, issued a clever call for President Obama to decline to renew his TWEA authority.

Anya Landau French: Obama Renews Cuba Embargo for Another Year 2010

Some thought the embargo's longevity was a product of the CIA's fervid institutional hatred of Castro for routing their rag tag army at the Bay of Pigs, and foiling their sometimes comical, often destructive lawless efforts to assassinate him or destabilize his regime.

Robert L. Borosage: Cheap Grace 2009

The architecture of Havana is still dramatic, but evidence of the embargo's depredation is everywhere A new friend laughingly told me that a party in Cuba requires just three people, a bottle of rum, and a guitar, and there was ample evidence of this.

Michael Rowe: Havana From the Ground 2009

Growing up in the 70's, the era of inflation, oil embargo's and doing without was central to my foundation.

Kari Henley: "Mommy, Are We Poor?" 2009

Even some hard-line anti communist groups have admitted the embargo's failure.

Howie Klein: What Are The Real US Aims In "Bringing Freedom" To Cuba?�� 2009