While the United States and Israel voted against and Brazil and Ukraine abstained, the United Nations General Assembly this Thursday overwhelmingly approved a resolution tabled by Cuba calling for an end to the US regime imposed 60 years ago. embargo.
With 185 votes in favor, the resolution calls for “an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the US on Cuba” and defends the “sovereign equality” of states, “non-interference in their internal affairs” and the “freedom of trade and navigation”.
The resolution has been passed every year since 1992, with the exception of 2020, due to the limitations of the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2016, in a year marked by then-US President Barack Obama’s visit to the island, the US abstained for the only time on this vote. The Donald Trump administration withdrew and voted against it again, while the current administration of Joe Biden maintained the same policies.
The mood this year was almost the same as last year. The only difference was Colombia, which went from abstaining to voting in favour. The country has had a leftist president, Gustavo Petro, since August and for the first time in history.
The embargo imposed by then-President John F. Kennedy in February 1962, in the midst of the Cold War, to stifle the communist regime “has the effect of a permanent pandemic, a constant hurricane,” lamented the head of the Cuban government. diplomacy, Bruno Rodríguez, on the UN stage.
According to the minister, the embargo “losses” in the first 14 months of the Biden administration in six decades exceeded $6 billion and $154 billion.
Source: DN
