UN holds annual vote on condemning US embargo on Cuba as tensions spill into public
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations is set to vote Wednesday on a resolution condemning the decades-long U. S. economic embargo on Cuba as the Trump administration intensifies its campaign to undermine Cuba's socialist government, including by threatening military intervention. The annual exercise aimed at calling out the U. S. government’s “maximum pressure policy” has been put before the U. N. General Assembly for the past 34 years, and each time the resolution has received from...
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