Cuba enjoys both domestic self-reliance and international exchange. Although the US-imposed embargo has initially led to a 40% drop in the Cuban economy, the country regained balance after loosening certain economic controls and renewing links to global capital market, even adopting the US dollar as legal currency. The embargo has provided Cuba a chance to democratize its political system and preserve social programs such as public health care services.
The US has ended in 1997 its tuna import embargo which for six years had banned the imports of tuna caught by eastern Pacific fishermen using the purse seine net method. This fishing method was responsible for killing more than 500,000 dolphins every year before the embargo was implemented. The embargo succeeded in reducing dolphin mortality to 2,700 per year, but the policy met various opposition. The proposed alternative netting methods were found harmful to other marine species such as sha...
