UN to Vote for 25th Occasion vs. US Blockade on Cuba

Havana -The wide rejection arousing in the international community the persistence of the U.S. blockade on Cuba will be reflected today at UN, when the world expresses for the 25th occasion its support to the Caribbean island.
Since its introduction for the first time in 1992 at the UN General Assembly, the Cuban draft resolution has received almost unanimous support from the State members that demand the lifting of Washington's unilateral sanctions.
In 2015, the resolution had 191 of 193 possible votes, confirming the failure -admitted for their executors- of a policy that keeps its essence and effects despite the process towards the normalization of relations undertaken by the two governments.
The U.S. administration has recently approved a Presidential Policy Directive (PPD-43) on Cuba and set the guidelines to conduct its rapprochement policy with the Caribbean island.
Although the document has recognized -or said to recognize- the right of the Caribbean island to independence, sovereignty and self-determination, and aimed to ensure the continuity of the dialogue, it has not hidden the intentions of subverting the social and political project Cuba has defended for more than 50 years.
The maneuver by the U.S. administration has not gone unnoticed by the Cuban government and society, which have expressed their repudiation.
Talking about the normalization of relations and recognizing the obsolescence of the blockade, while conditioning its lifting to political changes in Cuba has been considered at least inconsistency in a country whose economic damages have exceeded $753,668 billion USD, considering the depreciation of that currency against the value of gold.
The document has also made clear that the United States will not return the territory illegally occupied by the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo (eastern Cuba), or eliminate its subversive programs against the Revolution, which is described here as a lack of respect for sovereignty.
For those reasons, the island's youth have led rallies of support to the approach without conditions between two nations with irreconcilable differences and a dispute which is before the revolutionary triumph in January 1959, but in need because of its geographical proximity to have normal relations.
Those actions, held in student centers at all levels, were backed by women's organizations and other social groups, as well as institutions, agencies and sectors of the Cuban civil society.
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