A car drives past a billboard that reads in Spanish; "70 percent of Cubans have been born under the Embargo," in Havana, Cuba, 2006. The United States economic embargo on Communist-run Cuba turned 50 on Feb. 7, 2012. Cuba updates its estimate of how much the embargo has cost it using a complicated - and some say flawed - calculus that takes into account years of interest, the end of the gold standard and other factors. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano, File)
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