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AZUZ: Under which U.S. president was a trade embargo¹ first imposed between America and Cuba? Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson or Richard M. Nixon. Though President John F. Kennedy expanded the embargo, it was President Dwight D. Eisenhower who first imposed it.

It's still in place today. The embargo includes penalties on Cuba's economy and it restricts the travel and business that Americans are allowed to do in Cuba. There were exceptions to the rule. One of them, a deal made in December, allowed Cuban citizens to play in baseball's major leagues. Previously² in order for them to do that, they had to defect to give up their Cuban citizenship³ and they might not have been allowed back into Cuba afterward⁴. Under this agreement, U.S. baseball teams would pay about 25 percent of the Cuban players signing bonus to the Cuban Baseball Federation⁵. The Trump⁶ Administration had indicated it was reviewing the deal when it was made and on Monday the U.S. government cancelled it.

It says the Cuban Baseball Federation is part of Cuba's communist government. And because trade with Cuba is banned under the embargo, the baseball deal couldn't stand. The Administration says it won't allow part of the Cuban government to take part of the athlete's wages. The Cuban Baseball Federation called the deals cancellation⁷ politically motivated and said the deal made for a safer way for Cubans to play in the major leagues.

Some have paid to be smuggled⁸ to other countries first to get around the U.S. embargo. Major League Baseball says it still supports the original goal of the agreement which was to stop the human trafficking of baseball players from Cuba.

1 embargo   

n.禁运（令）；vt.对...实行禁运，禁止（通商）

参考例句：

• This country put an oil embargo on an enemy country.该国对敌国实行石油禁运。
• During the war,they laid an embargo on commerce with enemy countries.在战争期间，他们禁止与敌国通商。

2 previously   

adv.以前，先前（地）

参考例句：

• The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
• Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。

3 citizenship   

n.市民权，公民权，国民的义务(身份)

参考例句：

• He was born in Sweden,but he doesn't have Swedish citizenship.他在瑞典出生，但没有瑞典公民身分。
• Ten years later,she chose to take Australian citizenship.十年后，她选择了澳大利亚国籍。

4 afterward   

adv.后来；以后

参考例句：

• Let's go to the theatre first and eat afterward. 让我们先去看戏，然后吃饭。
• Afterward,the boy became a very famous artist.后来，这男孩成为一个很有名的艺术家。

5 federation   

n.同盟，联邦，联合，联盟，联合会

参考例句：

• It is a federation of 10 regional unions.它是由十个地方工会结合成的联合会。
• Mr.Putin was inaugurated as the President of the Russian Federation.普京正式就任俄罗斯联邦总统。

6 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

7 cancellation   

n.删除，取消

参考例句：

• Heavy seas can cause cancellation of ferry services.海上风浪太大，可能须要取消渡轮服务。
• Her cancellation of her trip to Paris upset our plan.她取消了巴黎之行打乱了我们的计划。

8 smuggled   

水货

参考例句：

• The customs officer confiscated the smuggled goods. 海关官员没收了走私品。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Those smuggled goods have been detained by the port office. 那些走私货物被港务局扣押了。 来自互联网