lood after the USSR fell and anticipated its incipient demise. The Cuban Democracy Act of 1992, under the guise of legalizing sales of medical supplies from the US, actually placed myriad restrictions on transactions. The Cuba Liberty and Solidarity Act of 1996 barred merchant ships docking in Cuba from docking in the US for six months thereafter and discouraged "foreign corporations from investing in Cuba by making them subject to lawsuits in US courts if they 'trafficked' in property confiscated from US citizens (including naturalised Cuban-Americans)" (Leogrande and Thomas 339). One observer in 1998 in one block ident
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