Today on October 30th in 2026 this week's ongoing US-Cuba War is still sorting out the battle that created a massive confrontation at the United Nations in New York between the USA's Mike Waltz and Cuba's Bruno Rodriguez. That Waltz-Rodriguez battle was a prelude to the yearly October vote in the UN for or against the U. S. economic Embargo/Blockade that began way back in 1962 and under the Trump-Rubio leadership in Washington has been severely tightened in the past two years, helping to creat record shortages of food, medicine, and electric power on the nearby island. As shown above on the "Cuban News Roundup" today on October 30th in 2026, the 2026 vote on the U. S. Embargo continues to make news.
As shown above by the two graphics, the nations of the world at the UN on October 28th in 2026 voted 130 to end the Embargo against Cuba while 17 nations voted to continue it and 25 nations did not vote at all but, somewhat cowardly, abstained.
As indicated above, many headlines are still proclaiming that Cuba was the big winner because this October's UN vote showed that the nations of the world again "voted overwhelmingly against the US embargo on Cuba" with "130 nations voting to demand that the U. S. end it." But actually this October's UN vote was a defeat for Cuba because a record 17 nations voted for the embargo on Cuba to continue while 25 nations chose to not even vote on it. Such numbers are wildly unprecedented in the 34 years that the UN has voted on the U. S. embargo against Cuba!!
As you can see above, often in the 34 years that the UN has voted on the U. S. embargo of Cuba the vote has been almost unanimous to end it...often as shown above with 187 nations voting to end it, two nations {the U. S. and Israel} to continue it, and just one nation {such as the Marshall Islands} abstaining and not voting at all. But drastically in October of 2026 only 130 nations voted to end the embargo while 17 voted to continue it and 25 nation didn't even care enough to vote at all!! So, in my opinion, the October vote this year was not a "win" for Cuba.
With Cuba this year winning the UN vote with 130 nations voting for Cuba with 17 nations voting for the U. S. and 25 nation not voting at all is not "a resounding victory for Cuba" and certainly not compared to the previous 33 UN votes when Cuba could expect the overwhelming vote of 187 nations voting for Cuba with only two {the U. S. and Isreal} voting for the U. S. with only one such as the Marshall Island abstaining.
Even more than the final US-Cuba vote in the UN in October of 2026, the passionate and somewhat violent words of Cuba's longtime Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez will linger poignantly in memory this time. Bruno has earned respect from many Americans over the years and this week at the UN his fiery uproar erupted for the whole world to see and hear, not just the U. S. UN aobassador Mike Waltz. Perhaps what Bruno Rodriguez couldn't hold back this time when he loudly and repeatedly called Mike Waltz "a liar" was because the old Cuban official has observed "too many Cuban babies that die because of a blockade maintained by the United States that the US claims does not exist but, in fact, has existed for almost the past seven decades."
Cuba's veteran Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez has been around long enough to realize that things have changed in the past two years now that Marco Rubio, born in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood, is now the ultra-powerful U. S. Secretary of State and the leader of the U. S. foreign policy decisions.
As headlined above, U. S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio this week personally expelled a Cuban UN delegate out of the United States....and this week "RUBIO CALLS FOR CUBANS TO PARTNER WITH THE CIA."
Of course, Revolutionary Cuba has had some long-running wars with the USA's powerful CIA intelligence agency, notably in April of 1961 at the Bay of Pigs when Cuban soldiers captured many CIA-backed Miami Cubans who spearheaded the air-land-sea military attack against Cuba's revolutionary rule.
In the final 24 hours of October in 2026 Miami's Litttle Havana Cubans still claim the U. S. EMBARGO against Cuba does not exist while Cuba claims it not only has existed since 1962 but now is history's longest "Genocidal BLOCKADE."
















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