Recently we heard that Cuba won a vote in the UN General Assembly for easing the US-declared Trade embargo on the Spanish-speaking territory.
The vote, which was backed overwhelmingly, was the 29th time the assembly voted to condemn the 60-year-old embargo.
US sanctions on Cuba were imposed in 1960, following the nationalisation of properties belonging to US citizens and corporations, in the wake of the revolution led by Fidel Castro.
Nearly two years later, US President John F Kennedy imposed an embargo.
The UN assembly started voting on the Cuba-backed resolution from 1992, voting for the resolution every year, except in 2020 when no vote took place because of the pandemic.
Now, it appears that only a vote in the US Congress can end the embargo, which Havana says has caused billions of dollars in damage to the island’s economy.
When the UN General Assembly vote took place Wednesday this week, only Israel voted with the US against the resolution.
Three other US allies: Ukraine, Colombia and Brazil abstained.
Cuba called the embargo “a systematic violation of the rights of the Cuban people.”
Reports reaching us show that Grenada voted with the overwhelming majority to support the resolution for an end to the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba.
Grenada was among 184 countries voting in favour of the resolution.
This report from the Grenada Government Information Service.
