Cuba Looking To Get the UN To Condemn US Embargo

Put in place in 1962

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Cuban officials are to ask the United Nations for the 22nd year in a row to condemn the U.S. embargo on Cuba, which has been in place since 1962.

Last year, 188 nations voted in the U.N. General Assembly to condemn the embargo, while only the U.S., Israel, and Palau voted to support it.

From Reuters:

(Reuters) - For the 22nd consecutive year, Cuba will ask the United Nations to condemn the United States economic embargo against the island, a top Cuban official announced on Monday, accusing Washington of tightening sanctions in place for more than half a century.

U.S. President Barack Obama, who stated before taking office that he wanted to recast long-hostile U.S.-Cuba relations, has been a disappointment to the Cuban government, which expected him to do more to dismantle the embargo.

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Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

For the love of God, will some nation other than the United States please trade with Cuba? Those poor bastards.

[Corning]

I imagine a Ford made in Mexico and sold in Mexico is cheaper then a ford made in the US and sold in the US.

Weird how there are not any new used Fords in Cuba.

It is almost as if Cuba has nothing to offer with even countries it can trade with.

Also why do all the Europeans vacation in Cancun? Cuba is physically closer...

[Eduard van Haalen]

The embargo is a bit dated, but of course the Cubans are using it as a scapegoat for their economic failures. If they'd been able to trade with the US they'd be an economic dynamo!

[Corning]

Cubans are using it as a scapegoat for their economic failures.

Don't forget all the useful idiots here in the US who say the same thing.

Have you ever met Joe?

Tony would also agree to scapegote the US but i really don't think he is smart enough to even understand what is going on here.

[Sevo]

Corning|10.7.13 @ 6:07PM|#
..."Don't forget all the useful idiots here in the US who say the same thing."...

Amusingly, these are the same u/is who claim global trade is killing jobs in all sorts of countries.

[Ranter]

"U.S. President Barack Obama...has been a disappointment to the Cuban government"

Yeah, get in line with the rest of us, Cuba.

[Andrew S.]

The reason that the embargo will never go away is that whichever party is in power is too scared that getting rid of the embargo would lose them Florida in the next election.

(Dammit. It would be so easy to take a quick vacation down to Havana from here too)

[Eduard van Haalen]

Just hang the Castro brothers and the emigres would probably be happy to stop the embargo.

[Greg83]

If anything these days it's a wash, with a September 2011 poll showing only 50% support among Cuban-Americans in Dade County. http://news.fiu.edu/2012/02/pa.....nges/35827

[Corning]

I wish Joe were here to tell us that the reason why Communist Cuba's economy is a pile of crap is because trade with Mexico and Canada is not good enough.

[pmains]

And the rest of Latin America and Asia and Europe.

[The Immaculate Trouser]

188 nations voted in the U.N. General Assembly to condemn the embargo, while only the U.S., Israel, and Palau voted to support it.

Tell me again how fucking wonderful the international community is.

[Greg83]

And Palau only voted with the U.S. for the name-recognition.

[Bo Cara Esq.]

I fail to see how a government telling its citizens they cannot trade with or travel to another nation is a good thing. Good for those nations who did not support it.

[The Immaculate Trouser]

I must have somehow missed the other near-unanimous condemnations of embargoes and trade limitations in the UN as pertains to other countries. Embargoes against Chile and Israel, for example, did not raise many eyebrows in that august institution. For that matter, I sure as hell haven't seen any unanimous discord over the many countries which the UN is currently embargoing and has embargoed in the past. Yet when it comes to a Communist country that treats their population like shit, suddenly we have UN votes that make Saddam Hussein's re-election margins look reasonable by comparison. It is patently ridiculous that embargoes against liberal democracies see far more action in the UN than an embargo against a country with an illiberal tradition as profoundly disturbing as Cuba's.

I don't support the embargo against Cuba, but the UN and the "international community" can take their special pleading right to hell.

[Deep Lurker]

But the US embargo is protecting Cuba from all sorts of evil capitalist exploitation! And is protecting Cuba's infant industries from unfair competition! Why does the UN hate Cuba so much that they'd want to end that?

[cavalier973]

Heh, heh,

Also, "Viva Cuba Libre!!!"

[cavalier973]

Fidel thought that he had seized Cuba's wealth, when in reality he chased it to the US. Cuban refugees turned the sleepy Southern town of Miami into an economic powerhouse.

[eyeroller]

U.S. President Barack Obama, who stated before taking office that he wanted to recast long-hostile U.S.-Cuba relations

Obama is such a wimp.