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A woman poses in front of hand prints on a wall during an event against US trade embargo against Cuba in Havana, yesterday
THE United Nations voted 189-2 to condemn the illegal United States blockade of Cuba today.
Only Israel backed the US in opposing the resolution calling for an end to the 60-year-old measure aimed at isolating and suffocating the Cuban Revolution. The two countries were the only ones to oppose it last year as well.
Every year the UN general assembly overwhelmingly censures the US for its crippling economic and financial embargo on the socialist island. This year’s vote was originally due yesterday, but the Donald Trump administration delayed it by 24 hours by forcing votes on a series of wrecking amendments first.
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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