The resolution presented by Cuba to request the end of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States was approved this Thursday by the General Assembly with 187 votes in favor.
The text received two votes against (the United States and Israel) and one member state abstained (Ukraine).
The resolution recognizes the blockade as the central element of United States policy towards Cuba for more than six decades.
Its effects have not ceased for a single day and are known by 80% of the Cuban population, who only knows one country with a blockade.
The blockade of Cuba began in 1960 and intensified at different historical moments, reaching third countries starting in 1992, precisely the year in which the General Assembly issued its first request to the United States to end it.
Year after year since 1992, the highest deliberative body of the United Nations has asked the United States to lift sanctions on the Caribbean island without success to date.