{"id":19838,"date":"2023-11-04T03:28:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T08:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=19838"},"modified":"2023-11-04T03:29:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T08:29:04","slug":"un-votes-overwhelmingly-to-condemn-us-economic-embargo-on-cuba-for-31st-year-and-urge-its-lifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=19838","title":{"rendered":"UN votes overwhelmingly to condemn US economic embargo on Cuba for 31st year and urge its lifting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">UNITED NATIONS (AP) \u2014 The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Thursday to condemn the American economic embargo of Cuba for a 31st year after its foreign minister urged, \u201cLet Cuba live without the blockade!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The vote on the resolution in the 193-member General Assembly tied the record for support for the Caribbean island nation: The vote was 187 in favor, with the United States and Israel opposed, and Ukraine abstaining. Somalia, Venezuela and Moldova didn\u2019t vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The \u201cyes\u201d vote was up from 185 last year and 184 in 2021, and it tied the 2019 vote of 187.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez urged the assembly before the vote to support \u201creason and justice,\u201d the U.N. Charter and international law and back the resolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/cuba-us-economic-embargo-resolution-condemn-20bceb7216fe3eea18bec8d81372c15b\">apnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED NATIONS (AP) \u2014 The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Thursday to condemn the American economic embargo of Cuba for a 31st year after its foreign minister urged, \u201cLet Cuba live without the blockade!\u201d The vote on the resolution in the 193-member General Assembly tied the record for support for the Caribbean island nation: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23905,4366,2278,23903,23902,23904,2759,20943],"class_list":["post-19838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-31-years","tag-condemnation","tag-cuba","tag-economic-embargo","tag-majority-vote","tag-overwhelming","tag-united-nations","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19840,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19838\/revisions\/19840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}