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UN votes 191-0-2 against US embargo

by DLi
Wow--talk about the rarity of global consensus. This past week the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly, 191-0(with only 2 abstentions from the USA and the other pariah state of Israel)for a resolution to condemn the illegal and immoral 5-decade-long US embargo on Cuba. When was the last time of such unanimity, on any issue? Even traditional US client states like Saudi Arabia and bribed regimes like Palau voted against Uncle Sam's absurd and even Satanic attempt to economically cripple a neighbor whose only "crime" is its astounding perseverance in surviving Washington's strangling noose.
After decades of invasive military threats and even numerous assassination attempts on Cuban President Fidel Castro, Washington has been forced by the reality of its failed policies, and actual isolation in the face of global outcry. Hence, after 50 years of confrontation, Uncle Sam finally switched to its "nice cop" routine of a nominal diplomatic recognition of Havana's legitimate status as a sovereign state. But of course the Imperial impulse of destabilization has not disappeared. The US State Dept. still gives out grants to recruit programs that tries to infiltrate and bribe Cuban NGOs to subtly undermine Cuba's socialist values and governance. But the world has now openly condemned the remaining archaic and crippling American policy of economic strangulation. Let all progressive citizens hope and work toward smashing this Imperial vice.
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