Concept in Definition ABC

Action whose mission is to pressure a person, group, organization, eliminating or complicating the ties that exist with it

The word boycott designates that action whose mission is to pressure a person, group, organization, among others, eliminating or complicating the links that exist with it and that can be commercial, economic and affect in this way to economy and the finance of the person or entity boycotted, or failing that, other levels can be attacked and blueprints as the social.

Origin of the term

The term has its origin back in the middle of the 20th century, when the Irish captain Charles Cunningham Boycott administered land in his his hometown and used to oppose the demands made by the peasants who worked them and who demanded better conditions labor. Meanwhile, his neighbors, upset with this attitude They punished him by not working for him or by not rendering him some service that he needed, with the intention of pressuring him to accept the requests of the peasants.

Hence the concept and the app that we give today when you want to name that negative action that is executed against a person, company or country, mostly in the economic plane, with the mission that the affected person modifies the attitude adopted in some aspect and that complicates the present of a group.

And for those who like anecdotes we must emphasize that the pressure Boycott received was such that he ended up going into exile in England.

Although the boycott is mostly applied in economic and commercial contexts, it also tends to occur in the social or labor.

The United States' boycott of Cuba

It is common for this concept to be associated and used as a synonym for the word blocking and to see it more clearly we will give an example well descriptive... The blockade that Cuba suffered by the United States for so many years and that complicated its economy was a clear example boycott that the country of the North imposed on the island ruled at that time by Fidel Castro with the mission of punishing it for its behaviour.

The blockade has been in force since October 1960 and was the United States' response to the expropriations that the government Cuban made on the properties of Cuban citizens and also of North American companies residing on the island. At first it was left to the margin of the boycott of areas such as medicine and feeding but in 1962 it was decided to extend it to those mentioned as well.
Since 2014, Cuba and the United States have moved closer together and progress is slowly being made towards ending the current blockade.