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CUBA called on the United States on Wednesday to lift its illegal blockade of the socialist island, as a girl lay dying of cancer for want of US-made drugs.
The country’s UN ambassador in Geneva Anayansi Rodriguez insisted that the US must respect the will of the international community following Tuesday’s 191-2 vote by the general assembly condemning the blockade.
Ms Rodriguez told a monthly meeting of the World Trade Organisation’s disputes settlement body that the blockade was illegal and harmed her country’s economy.
ALEX GORDON and LORRAINE DOUGLAS report from Havana, Cuba, where they represented the Communist Party of Britain at the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties on August 7-8
Once a source of national pride, Cuba’s healthcare system declines as energy shortages deepen crisis, writes ANDREA RODRIGUEZ
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