businesses. Three years later when the economic sanctions of the Cuban
             Democracy Act had failed to oust Castro from power, the US Congress once again
             increased the standards Cuba most adhere to for the embargo to be lifted. It
             accomplished this by passing the Helms-Burton Law. Three of the stated purposes of the
             helms-Burton Law focus on the democratization of the Cuban government, two deal with
             protecting the US, and the last one is concerned with global sanctions. The law also
             increases the amount of compensation Cuba most pay before the US will drop the
             sanctions. The Helms-Burton law, by insisting that Cuba pay compensation to over
             400,000 Cuban Americans, makes it literally impossible for the Cuban state to reach the
             Embargo supporters claim that sanctions against Cuba must be maintained
             because Cuba is still a national security threat to the US, however current facts about
             security reveal this to simply be untrue. Initially, Castro's socialist platform and alliance
             with the Soviet Union did indeed pose a threat to American security. The reason for this
             is that the state of international politics in that era was one of bipolarism between
             liberalism and communism. This meant that the US felt that its balance of power in its
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