Cuban leader Fidel Castro responded to the fall of the Soviet Union by
trying to develop tourism to support the devastated economy of his
country. A goal was set to attract over 2 million tourists to Cuba by
the year 2000, which it was hoped would bring in more than 2600 million
dollars.
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The causes were the following: England annulled the laws established by South Carolina and Virginia, controlled the courts of justice ordering that the customs authorities enter unauthorized homes and warehouses where it was felt that they could find contraband goods, the British placed taxes on sugar, coffee, wine, potassium, iron and silk, called the Law of Sugar. With this tax they wanted the colonies to collaborate with the expenses to maintain the bureaucracy. They also placed a tax for all printed materials, called the Stamp Act.
The participle in this sentence is: <u>running</u>
