U.S. embargo cost Cuba $4 billion in 2005

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The U.S. embargo on Cuba cost the Caribbean nation more than $4 billion last year, double the tally a year earlier, as tougher U.S. rules took a bigger bite out of the island"s recovering economy, Cuban officials said Monday.
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More U.S. pressure on a bigger Cuban economy exacted a heftier toll, including greater outlays for insurance and freight as Cuba boosted trade with nations more distant than its northern neighbor, Cuba"s Vice Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez told a news conference. "This is not an embargo ... but an act of economic war," Rodriguez charged.
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Last year, 182 countries voted in the United Nations against the U.S. embargo on Cuba, up from 59 in 1992, Rodriguez said. The annual U.N. vote on what Havana generally calls a "blockade" is scheduled for Nov. 8.

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[RethugAssKicker]

1. It is indeed a declaration of war !

The US govt is a rotten spoiled, frightened, ignorant BULLY !

[Solo_in_MD]

2. Seems quite low to me actually