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Judi Lynn

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Fri Nov 8, 2019, 05:14 AM Nov 2019

In 'another calculation error', Colombia refuses to condemn US embargo on Cuba

Source: Colombia Reports


by Adriaan Alsema November 7, 2019

For the first time in decades, Colombia’s government refused to condemn the United States’ controversial embargo on Cuba.

For more than 25 years, Colombia’s ambassador to the United Nations has always voted in favor in the annual resolution that condemns the embargo that is widely seen as detrimental to the people, rather than the communist government of Cuba.

While 187 of 193 ambassadors voted to reject the embargo at the UN on Thursday, Colombia’s ambassador abstained for the first time since the resolution was first introduced in 1992.

Only the ambassadors of the US, Israel and Brazil voted in favor of the embargo.


Read more: https://colombiareports.com/in-another-calculation-error-colombia-refuses-to-condemn-us-embargo-on-cuba/

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In 'another calculation error', Colombia refuses to condemn US embargo on Cuba (Original Post) Judi Lynn Nov 2019 OP
The continued US embargo of Cuba is insane groundloop Nov 2019 #1
But, but, but, Obama ended it! If Obama did it ... tRump can't stomach it. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2019 #2
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