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US blockade of Cuba is a crime against humanity
Joe Biden must not be let off the hook as his electoral promise to abandon Trump’s hostility has come to naught, argues KEN LIVINGSTONE
Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez addresses the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, June 23, 2021
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COUNTRIES around the world have again demanded at the United Nations that the United States lift the blockade of Cuba that it has been imposing since 1962.
On June 23 2021 in the 29th vote at the UN general assembly on the issue of the US blockade, 184 countries supported the Cuban resolution calling for its end.
Only the US and Israel voted against, while three other countries — Brazil, Colombia and Ukraine — abstained.
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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