Cuba - 50th anniversary of landing
WORKERS, DEC 2006 ISSUE
THIS MONTH marks the 50th anniversary of the landing of the Granma, the yacht carrying Cuban revolutionaries from their base in Mexico to the Sierra Maestra mountains in eastern Cuba on 2 December 1956. Just over two years later, they entered Havana.
Every year, Cuba proposes a motion to the UN General Assembly, condemning the 45-year US blockade. Year on year, this motion is agreed with a bigger majority. This year Cuba's motion gained a record 183 votes for and a mere 4 against. Australia tried to amend the motion to say that the US was motivated by "valid concerns" about human rights in Cuba, but this was overwhelmingly rejected.