US’ Sanctions Against Cuba (1988–2022)

In Public International Law (PIL), the main research studies on sanctions place them as a foreign policy tool, mostly intended to study specific cases. In this research, we needed and got as a result a definition of terms, such as blockade, embargo, international unilateral sanctions, and coercive unilateral measures, in order to avoid confusions. The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs, its homologue Ministry on Foreign Trade and Collaboration, and the academic community use different ways to process and interpret these terms when making reports, so we decided to make distinctions. At the same time, we systematized the data we had available from year January 20, 1988–2022, on the sanctions imposed by the USA against Cuba.