Posted on 10/31/2017 10:22:51 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The Trump administration will defend America’s decades-old economic embargo on Cuba in a United Nations vote this week, the State Department said Tuesday, in a reversal from the Obama administration that reflects deteriorating U.S.-Cuban relations.
Every year the U.N. votes to condemn the embargo, and for years the U.S. predictably voted “no.” But last year, under President Barack Obama, the U.S. abstained for the first time, as Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro moved forward with the historic warming of relations.
A “no” vote Wednesday from U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley will return the United States to a place of extreme isolation within the global community over its policy toward Cuba, potentially undermining the Trump administration’s broader goals for engagement with Latin America. The U.S. embargo on Cuba is almost universally opposed throughout the world.
The vote comes as an ongoing crisis over U.S. government workers in Havana harmed by invisible “health attacks” has created a new rift between the U.S. and Cuba, putting the restoration of ties in jeopardy. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert did not mention the attacks in announcing the “no” vote, instead emphasizing the need to promote rights and democracy in Cuba. […]
The yearly vote condemning the U.S. embargo has reliably passed overwhelmingly. Voting “no” means the U.S. will once again be pitted against almost every other nation. …
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Am I supposed to give a rat’s a$$ what the commies in the rest of the world think? I don’t.
Someone really must have (properly and appropriately) schooled Trump on Cuba and Russia for him to have reversed his views on some of these issues.
Sept, 2015
“50 years is enough, “Trump said in an interview with the Daily Caller published Tuesday, referring to Obama’s decision to re-establish U.S. ties with Cuba.
“I think it’s fine. I think it’s fine, but we should have made a better deal,” Trump added.
“The concept of opening with Cuba is fine.”
http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/08/politics/donald-trump-cuba-diplomatic-opening/index.html
Nothing will happen until Raul Castro is gone.
The implication that the U.S. will once again be pitted against almost every other nation, is a "bad" thing could be wrong.
Is not "almost every other nation" in the UN communist or socialist? What do these other nations have to offer? Why would the US want to support the communists in Cuba?
How can the USA be assured that our economic support goes to the people of Cuba and not the corrupt Communist government of Cuba?
The most lasting thing Trump could do for American citizens is to remove the UN from the soil of the USA & let that building be put to better use.
End the hundreds of people with ‘diplomatic immunity’ who roam the streets of New York.
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