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THE US sensationally abstained in the United Nations’ annual vote condemning its own blockade of Cuba yesterday for the first time in 24 years.
Washington’s UN ambassador Samantha Power (pictured) admitted the US policy had failed and had in fact “undermined the goals it set out to achieve.”
Earlier anonymous diplomats said Ms Power would list parts of the motion Washington objects to, despite the government’s overall support for lifting the embargo.
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the US is tightening the noose to destroy Cuban socialism — the need for immediate, international solidarity is urgent
On January 29, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to US national security and tightened the blockade against the island nation MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS reports
Where normally only the US and its ally Israel vote to strangle Cuba economically, there have been special efforts to slander and isolate the besieged socialist island nation year — so we must redouble our solidarity, writes TARIQ ANDERSON