{"id":3021,"date":"2009-10-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/u-n-again-condemns-u-s-embargo-against-cuba\/"},"modified":"2009-10-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T00:00:00","slug":"u-n-again-condemns-u-s-embargo-against-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2009\/10\/u-n-again-condemns-u-s-embargo-against-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"U.N. AGAIN CONDEMNS U.S. EMBARGO AGAINST CUBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>For the 18th year in a row, the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday [Oct 28 2009] voted to condemn the 47-year embargo against Cuba by the United States.<br \/><\/em><br \/>The draft resolution was passed by a vote of 187-3, with 2 abstentions.<\/p>\n<p>Only the United States, Israel and Palau voted against the measure. Micronesia and the Marshall Islands abstained.<\/p>\n<p>The yearly vote has become almost a ritual, but has not changed the United States&#8217; stance toward the communist island nation.<\/p>\n<p>Washington severed diplomatic relations with Cuba in 1961 and has had the economic embargo in place since 1962.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s vote was the first with President Obama in office. Obama has taken some steps to thaw relations with Cuba, but extended the embargo in September.<\/p>\n<p>Since taking office, the Obama administration has lifted restrictions on Cuban-Americans traveling to the island and sending remittances to family members there. The United States also shut down a ticker atop the U.S. interests section in Havana, Cuba, that had since 2006 scrolled anti-Cuba slogans in 5-foot-high crimson letters.<\/p>\n<p>In July, U.S. and Cuban diplomats held their first talks since 2003 on Cuban migration to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the changes, the U.S. stance remains that the embargo will not be lifted until political and social changes are seen in Cuba.<br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2009\/US\/10\/28\/un.cuba.vote\/index.html\" ><br \/>GO TO ORIGINAL &ndash; CNN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the 18th year in a row, the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday [Oct 28 2009] voted to condemn the 47-year embargo against Cuba by the United States.The draft resolution was passed by a vote of 187-3, with 2 abstentions. Only the United States, Israel and Palau voted against the measure. Micronesia and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}