NO NATION Supports Embargo

Yesterday's UN Vote: 191-0
{Thursday, October 27th, 2016}

        Yesterday at the United Nations, the entire world opposed the American economic embargo against Cuba! The vote was 191-to-zero. Not even the United States, the nation that has bent its democracy to allow a few right-wingers to dictate its Cuban policy for decades, could bring itself to vote to support the embargo that Cuba calls a blockade. At the UN in New York, the U. S. abstained and then was joined by Israel.

       At the United Nations this sign denounced Israel as the only nation in the world in recent years that has joined the United States in supporting the embargo against Cuba. In the eyes of the world, that Israeli vote had been bought-and-paid for because Israel is by far the biggest recipient of U. S. economic and military aid. But yesterday after the U. S. abstained, so did Israel. So the world sees a 191-to-0 vote.

       At the UN, Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez made an impassioned denunciation of the embargo. He said, "The human damages caused by the blockade are incalculable. There isn't any Cuban family or sector in the country that has not suffered from it, especially the lives of the everyday Cubans." 

The U. S. UN representative Samantha Power agreed. 

She abstained.

         Representing the four Cuban-American members of the U. S. Congress from the Miami area, Mario Diaz-Balart issued this official statement: "In today's UN vote, President Obama continues to side with the Castros instead of the Cuban people." Mario Diaz-Balart followed his Havana-born brother Lincoln to the U. S. Congress from Miami, which only sends anti-Castro zealots to Congress although most Cuban-Americans even in the Little Havana section of Miami support Obama's Cuban policy, not the Diaz-Balarts. The Diaz-Balart brothers are the sons of Rafael Diaz-Balart who was a key Minister in the Batista dictatorship before becoming one of the richest and most powerful exiles in Miami after the Cuban Revolution ousted Batista on January 1, 1959. A handful of anti-Castro zealots like the Diaz-Balarts in the 535-member U. S. Congress -- with a few easily obtained sycophants -- have dictated America's Cuban policy, which includes the embargo that now no nation in the world including the U. S. supports.

      Cuba has no trouble convincing the world that the United States of America's embargo/blockade against the island is the longest and cruelest embargo ever imposed by a powerful nation against a weak one. Unpatriotic Americans have pusillanimously allowed it to demean their democracy since 1962. 

The UN vote: 191-0.

        Almost eight years ago when he began his two terms as President of the United States, Barack Obama -- being a democracy-loving American -- was ashamed about the decades-old U. S. embargo of Cuba. So was President Kennedy back in October of 1963 when he informed his top aides that his top priority when he returned from Dallas was to normalize relations with Cuba; so was President Carter in the 1970s till he was replaced by right-wing Republicans in the White House; and so was President Clinton in the 1990s till Miami-based Brothers to the Rescue airplanes taunted Cuba with overflights and produced a provocation that forced Clinton, instead of normalizing relations with Cuba, to sign the Helms-Burton Bill that has since debilitated millions of innocent Cuban people and the U. S. democracy. But of all the American presidents since the 1960s, Mr. Obama has shown the most guts, the most intelligence and the most concern for the U. S. democracy by powerfully and astutely using his executive powers to slice into the Batistiano-directed congressional laws regarding the embargo...an embargo that ALL THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD OPPOSE. Yet, the dysfunctional U. S. Congress with an approval rating in single digits still maintains the essence of the embargo without even having to acknowledge that the nations of the world oppose it 191-to-zero and that even the United States of America no longer supports it. So study the graphic above and comprehend how democracy-lovers like the decent President Obama view the embargo opposed by the entire world. If you do that, I believe you will feel sorry for the U. S. democracy.  

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