Here we go again, another UN vote condemning the US embargo against the Cuban government dictatorship for life regime. Vote and post, if your desired poll option is not on the poll, post it marked other and I will count it into the poll from time to time, but I will reserve the right to determine if it fits the poll or the thread, either way I will give you credit for your other poll option on my post poll vote report.
On Thursday April 19 2018 the new Cuban National Assembly Parliament will chose the next President of Cuba, probably first Vice President and Comrade, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, one day before his 58th birthday, when Raúl retires, lol, but Raúl will remain a member of the Cuban National Assembly Parliament, and First Secretary of the Politburo of the Communist Party Central Committee, and General of the Armed Forces, real change we can believe in, lol.
A good read news story by Argentinian columnist, Andrés Oppenheimer, Criticize Venezuela dictatorship but mum on Cuba? That’s political hypocrisy, which is covered on my poll by option 1. But his news story also points out that while President Trump announced tougher sanctions on Cuba awhile back, he left many of President Obama's policy on Cuba as is, but recently due to the alleged sonic attacks on US diplomats and Canadian diplomats in La Habana, it seems the Trump administration is tightening up the embargo and using the alleged sonic attacks on American and Canadian diplomats as an excuse to derail the improved US Cuban relatons started by President Obama, real change we can believe in from the American side of course, but not from the Cuban government side, lol, I am having a lol attack.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/n ... 68522.html
The Trump administration expelled 15 Cuban diplomats from their embassy in the US, as a response to the alleged sonic attacks on American and Canadian diplomats in La Habana.
The Trump administration has reduced its embassy diplomats in La Habana to a bare minimum, left only one US diplomat who can process US visas, withdrew the diplomats who handle business relations, announced Cuban nationals may now apply for Cuban visitor visas at other embassies, announced Cuban nationals can apply for the 20,000 immigration visas per year in their embassy in Bogota Colombia, where they will also be interviewed, making it hard to impossible for many Cuban nationals to do so, as it takes time and money to fly to Colombia and be on time for the interviews, and the money $ has to be sent by their Cuban American relatives and friends in the US, their overseas Cuban American immigrant community when they want our hard currency $ money, and the anti social, anti democratic, hardline intransigent, anti revotion-ary Gusano worms, e scoria scums elements Cuban American Mafia of Miami when they want to put us down, the same thing they call any Cuban nationals in Cuba opposed to the Cuban government.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/n ... 68522.html
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation- ... 80821.html
U.S. and Cuba use United Nations stage to launch verbal attacks against each other
Saying that Cuba has used the U.S. embargo against the island as a “shiny object to distract the world” from its own failures, the United States bucked the sentiment in the United Nations General Assembly Wednesday and voted against a resolution condemning the embargo.
The General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn the embargo, but reflecting the Trump administration’s new harder line on Cuba, the United States voted once again to reject the nonbinding resolution. It was its 25th no vote on the resolution, which has come up every year since 1991.
The final vote was 191 in favor with two no votes by the United States and Israel, which traditionally votes with the U.S.
The renewed hostility between Cuba and the United States was on full display as Nikki Haley, the U.S. representative to the United Nations, called the long-standing debate on the embargo “political theater,” and said Cuba “is sending the warped message to the world that the sad state of its economy, the oppression of its people, and the export of its destructive ideology are not its fault.”
U.S. United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley address the U.N. Security Council in September. The United States cast a no vote on a resolution condemning the embargo on Wednesday.
Bebeto Matthews AP
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez used more than half of his speech to take umbrage at what he called Haley’s “offensive, interfering statements,” condemn the Trump administration’s Cuba policy, and correct what he said were historical errors in Haley’s remarks.
“The United States, where flagrant violations of human rights are committed, hasn’t the slightest moral authority to criticize Cuba,” he said.
The 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly considered a resolution Wednesday on the “necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.” Cia Pak UN Photo
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The United Nations General Assembly session that considered a resolution condemning the U.S. embargo against the island. The vote was 191-2 in favor of the resolution.
Cia Pak UN Photo
For 26 years, Cuba has introduced the resolution calling for the immediate end of the U.S. embargo against the island, and for every year except 2016, the United States voted to reject the resolution. Last year the Obama administration directed its representative to abstain from the vote, reflecting the rapprochement between the two countries that began on Dec. 17, 2014. Israel also abstained in 2016, making the final vote 191 in favor with two abstentions.
In switching its vote last year away from a no, the Obama administration said rather than isolating Cuba, the embargo had served to isolate the United States from the rest of the world.
Recommendations announced by anti-embargo senators include allowing individual people-to-people travel, lifting restrictions on remittances and lifting limitations on bank transactions for Cubans who open U.S. bank accounts.
Posted by GMS: That is a comprise plan, lol, I am having a lol attack.
But Haley said that the United States would prefer to be isolated, rather than not stand up for the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the Cuban people.
For 55 years, she said, Cuba has used the embargo “as a shiny object to distract the world’s attention from the destruction it has inflicted on its own people and on others in the Western Hemisphere. Today the crime is the Cuban government’s continued repression of its people and failure to meet even the minimum requirements of a free and just society,” she said. “Our response has been to stand with the Cuban people and their right to determine their own future.”
Then Halley said she wanted to speak directly to the Cuban people. She said the United States supports Cubans’ right to speak freely, have uncensored access to the internet, provide for their families and determine their own leadership. But she said the Cuban government “silences its critics” and “rigs the economy so the government alone profits.”
Cuban officials immediately took to Twitter to attack Haley’s comments.
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My views and comments:
If I were the Cuban government regime I would say and do the same thing, for abvious reasons, lol. As a native Cuban and American citizen, from my personal political perspective, I consider it shameful and deplorable like a basket of deplorables, for western style, democratic multi political party leaders of the world to demand democracy in Venezuela and other nations, but not when it comes to Cuba. When it comes to Cuba they favor diplomatic relations, economic, political, and tourist trade and aid for the Cuban government regime for life, they deny, excuse, and or support the Cuban regime, it is shameful and deplorable like a basket of deplorables. Who agrees with me, and who disagrees with me?
The Cuban government will soon be holding democratic (lol, gulp) national municipal one political party state elections, lol.
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