End Cuba blockade, says UN
WORKERS, DEC 2007 ISSUE
On 24 October, US President Bush called on the Cuban Army and people to overthrow the Cuban government, promising to tighten the 45-year-old blockade and set up a "freedom fund" with allies to rebuild capitalism in Cuba after the government was overthrown. The Latin American diplomats in his audience stayed silent; some hand-picked Cuban Americans cheered. He even introduced people he said would be the next leaders of Cuba. Bush is the tenth US President to call for the socialist government of Cuba to be overthrown.
Six days later, the United Nations General Assembly voted to condemn the US blockade of Cuba, calling on the US Government to end it immediately. The vote, the 16th time the General Assembly had voted against the blockade, was by the biggest majority ever – 184 to 4 – with Israel, Palau and the Marshall Islands (US colonies in all but name) alone in supporting the US position. The US could not even muster the Iraqi government to support its stand.
This really is the voice of the international community that we are constantly being told about. It begs the question though, who exactly are the allies of the US who will help with Bush's "freedom fund".