Cuba Embargo Analysis

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The Nations of Cuba and the United States have decided to negotiate on the end of a fifty three year embargo. This negotiation could possible mean peace between the two countries after the initial break in relations do to the cuban missile crisis and the bay of pigs incident. Negotiations and conditions being proposed by both nations seem to be moving along well, except for one obstacle, the matter of Assata Shakur who was given political asylum in the 1980s. The normalizations of relations between Cuba and the U.S. are being pushed day by day working past the matters of shakur and moving forward from the original end of relations between each nation.
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and Cuba in re-normalizing relations between the two nations. Assata Shakur is a main member Black Liberation Army . In the 1970s Shakur was convicted of several crimes and was being hunted down across the country. Shakur was imprisoned in several prisons in through the 1970s. She escaped from prison in 1979 and fled to Cuba in the 1980s after living as a fugitive for a few years, In Cuba she received political asylum. She has been living in Cuba ever since. Since 2005, the FBI has classified her as a domestic terrorist and a bounty of one million dollars has been set in capturing or aiding in the capture of her. In 2013, the FBI added her to the Most Wanted terrorist list which gave her the title as the first woman to be listed. Dan Bowens states,“She's a convicted domestic terrorist who executed a state trooper according to the FBI. Joanne Chesimard has lived in Cuba for nearly 30 years. Hiding in plain sight -- even lecturing at a local university -- all under the direct protection of the government - a blessing from Fidel Castro.” (Bowens, Dan. May 02 2015) Shakur is currently living in Cuba just out of the reach of the U.S., The question is can the U.S. get their hands on her with the upcoming reform of relations between the two nations? Assata Shakur is

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