Liberty is expensive. Because Cuba insist she direct her own affairs , and that women and people of color be treated with dignity and respect served as a pretext to the wrath of the U. S. Government. Cuba’s recognization of the basic human rights of all people upset the status quo. Cuba’s actualization of racial equality were in diametric opposition to America’s forlorn racist disposition toward blacks. And in retaliation America Continues to enforce an embargo , in place since the year 1960. The embargo prohibits American citizens, or corporate entities from either importing to, or exporting from Cuba.