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❗The resolution to end the blockade, presented by Cuba, was approved by 165 votes in favor, 7 against, and 12 abstentions.
(lemmygrad.ml)
📍The countries that voted against were:
- ❌🇦🇷Argentina
- ❌🇭🇺Hungary
- ❌🇮🇱Israel
- ❌🇲🇰North Macedonia
- ❌🇵🇾Paraguay
- ❌🇺🇦Ukraine
- ❌🇺🇸United States
The resolution, adopted for the 33rd consecutive year, “once again urges the states that have applied and continue to apply such laws and measures to take the necessary steps to repeal or invalidate them as soon as possible.”
Ugh, hopefully this is just the flailing of a dying empire rather than anything more systemic. The US knows that as its grip on the global economy weakens, so does the efficacy of its embargo.