{"id":10716,"date":"2009-09-15T07:08:03","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T12:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10716"},"modified":"2009-09-15T07:08:03","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T12:08:03","slug":"reuters-obama-signs-order-continuing-cuba-embargo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10716","title":{"rendered":"Reuters: Obama signs order continuing Cuba embargo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Reuters<\/em> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/tvnz.co.nz\/world-news\/obama-signs-order-continuing-cuba-embargo-2991196\">15 September 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Barack Obama signed an order extending the law used to impose the US trade embargo on Cuba, despite calls by embargo opponents to follow up his easing of sanctions on the communist-ruled island by letting it lapse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The President has determined that it is in the national interest of the United States to continue for one year the exercise of certain authorities under the Trading With the Enemy Act with respect to Cuba,&#8221; the White House said.<\/p>\n<p>Obama announced in April that he would ease the trade restrictions, imposed on Cuba nearly half a century ago after Fidel Castro&#8217;s Communist revolution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/tvnz.co.nz\/world-news\/obama-signs-order-continuing-cuba-embargo-2991196\">Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters \/ 15 September 2009 President Barack Obama signed an order extending the law used to impose the US trade embargo on Cuba, despite calls by embargo opponents to follow up his easing of sanctions on the communist-ruled island by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10716\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-2MQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10718,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10716\/revisions\/10718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}