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An embargo is the legal prohibition by a
government of trade with another country,
forbidding foreign ships to leave or enter
its ports. Trade embargoes may be imposed on
a country seen to be violating international
laws. From 1993 a United Nations oil and arms
embargo was imposed against Haiti in an
attempt to undermine the island's military
regime and force the return of its deposed
civil president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Subject by: Robert Small