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Bruno Eduardo Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuba's foreign minister speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question at UN headquarters, October 29, 2024
THE United Nations general assembly has overwhelmingly condemned the illegal US blockade of Cuba, backing a call for Washington to lift it by 187 votes to two.
It is the 32nd year in a row that the assembly has called for the blockade to end.
Only the US and Israel voted against the resolution and only Moldova abstained, matching the record for support for the socialist island first set in 2019 and equalled last year.
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
Cuba Solidarity Campaign secretary BERNARD REGAN says the inhuman blockade of Cuba not only continues, but the Donald Trump administration is ratcheting up aggression against both Havana and Latin America more widely
