In a special two-day session, the United Nations General Assembly met Oct. 29-30, debated and voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution submitted by Cuba calling for an end to Washington’s punishing 65-year economic war against the island’s people and their revolution. The vote was 187 in favor, with only two opposed — the U.S. and Israel, and one abstention, Moldova.
The U.N. has passed a similar resolution every year since 1992.
This assault on Cuba has been pursued by every U.S. administration since 1961 — Democratic and Republican alike. It is the policy of the capitalist ruling families in the U.S.
Speakers also denounced the Joseph Biden administration’s outrageous decision to keep Cuba on its witch hunt list of State Sponsors of Terrorism, which subjects the Cuban people to additional privations.
The embargo was announced in 1960, as President John Kennedy acted on a secret State Department memorandum from Lestor Mallory. Noting that “the majority of Cubans support Castro,” Mallory proposed an economic war that “makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation, and overthrow of government.”
Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez, addressed the U.N. session Oct. 30. “For five consecutive days, from Friday, Oct. 18 to Wednesday, Oct. 23, Cuban families had no electricity, except for a few hours,” he said, adding that these difficulties were exacerbated by the effects of Hurricane Oscar, whic… اقرأ أكثر
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