United Nations, Oct 28 (Prensa Latina) The U.S. blockade against Cuba returns to global scrutiny today at the UN General Assembly with the debate on the draft resolution calling for lifting the longest economic blockade in history.
Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez is leading the Cuban delegation in New York to “participate on October 28 and 29 in the discussion and vote on the General Assembly’s draft resolution, which calls for an end to the United States blockade against Cuba,” he wrote on his account on the social network X.
“We will defend the #TruthOfCuba and the international community, which the U.S. government is trying to manipulate and change under unprecedented pressure,” he said.
His corrupt political clique fears being isolated once again by the overwhelming UN condemnation of its economic strangulation and suffering measures against the Cuban people, warned the foreign minister, who used the hashtag #TumbaElBloqueo (TumbaTheBlockade).
This will be the thirty-fourth time a proposal arguing for the need to end the embargo, imposed more than six decades ago by successive Democratic and Republican administrations, without distinction, will be debated.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, the global forum of 193 countries will examine and vote on the document presented by the Caribbean nation, which argues the worsening impact of this policy of suffocation on its population.
The international community has unequivocally rejected the blockade, which last year was supported by only two countries, the United States and its ally Israel, compared to an overwhelming majority of 187 others who opposed it.
According to official data, the blockade has caused damages of $7.556 billion in the last year, a 49 percent increase compared to the previous period.
Its devastating impact can be measured in the daily lives of the Cuban population and in the island’s economic planning, which sees its access to medical equipment, food, communications technology, transportation, and fuel, among other items, severely limited.
Added to this, as Rodríguez recalled, is Cuba’s reinstatement to the arbitrary and unilateral list of state sponsors of terrorism and the application of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, which aggravate financial and commercial persecution.
According to the list of speakers circulating here—which may be subject to change—representatives from at least 49 countries and groups, such as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Non-Aligned Movement, and the Caribbean Community, will take the podium of the General Assembly today. Debate and voting will continue tomorrow.
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