Embargo
The embargo both forbade American products from entering Nicaragua (with exceptions for medicine and other humanitarian goods) and Nicaraguan products from entering the United States. It further banned all Nicaraguan ships from landing in any U.S. port or planes from landing on U.S. soil.
Ronald Reagan, on the day he declared the embargo, stated: "I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, find that the policies and actions of the Government of Nicaragua constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States and hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat."
Reagan made four demands against Nicaragua during his embargo announcement:
- To "halt its export of armed insurrection, terrorism, and subversion in neighboring countries."
- To end its military ties to Cuba and the Soviet Union
- To cease its "massive arms buildup"
- To adhere, in law and practice, to democratic principles and "observance of full political and human rights."
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