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Meanwhile, some measures, including improvements in the oil-for-food programme, will be implemented regardless of progress on the weapons front.On the other hand, if Iraq refuses to play along, the Americans and British hope at least to blunt the criticism they endure for upholding the embargo.
But Clinton, while publicly upholding the embargo policy, was sympathetic to the Muslims' predicament, having spoken out for helping them in his 1992 presidential campaign.
But the revelation of the secret Croatian smuggling channel now shows that the president had found a third approach: an official policy that upheld the embargo, paired with a private one that undercut it.
It took some nerve, for instance, for the US to suggest that the embargo should be upheld because of human rights abuses in Cuba while the US abused humans at its military base at Guantanamo Bay.
Curtis Wright Corporation was later convicted of selling weapons to Bolivia in violation of the embargo with the Supreme Court upholding the conviction in 1936 citing the "exclusive power of the President as the sole organ of the Federal Government in the field of international relations".
In an interview last week, Havana's representative in Washington, Jorge Bolaños, criticized the United States for continuing to uphold its embargo despite President Obama's criticism of the policy during his presidential campaign.
Elsewhere, speculation and grumbling spread, particularly in Europe, that the United States was somehow violating the embargo and reneging on its pledge to uphold it.
"The embargo doesn't work.
The Embargo on Cuba Failed.
