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America is supposedly the land of opportunity, but does that give us the right to impose upon other countries? For nearly fifty years, an embargo has been placed against Cuba, restricting trade of goods and medicines, travel, and fines any country that trades with it. Why is this important? As Americans, we do not know what the truth is on this matter because propaganda has been fed to us since day one. Most Americans believe Fidel Castro to be a tyrant on par with Saddam Hussein; truth be told, he is a hero of the people, a soldier against imperialism, a revolutionary. This may seemed biased, and I do not want to come across as anti-American, but my goal is to shed light on the matter and have people look at it in a different way. What i would like to study is why the embargo is ongoing i.e. the underlying reasons of why it was placed, how Castro managed to keep his country going while under the embargo, and what can be accomplished when the embargo is lifted. In retrospect, education is the key to lifting the embargo: educating the people on what the embargo, who Castro is and what he has done, and what could be the benefits.