This resolution, the thirty-third of its kind, passed with 165 votes in favor, seven against, and 12 abstentions during yesterday’s session of the UN General Assembly in New York.
At the headquarters of the Basque trade union LAB in Bilbao, Amanda Verrone, from the union’s International Relations department, and Milagros Acea, representing the associations Euskadi-Cuba, Sierra Maestra-Euskadi, and Desembarco del Granma, shared their thoughts on the matter.
In addition to discussing the terrible consequences of Washington’s blockade of Cuba, they also offered preliminary data on the campaign carried out in October to collect medical supplies.
The LAB union, in alliance with the aforementioned associations, launched a campaign in September to collect medicines, medical supplies, and funds for the purchase of pacemakers, titled “Langileon elkartasunez blokeoa hautsi!” (Break the blockade through workers’ solidarity!).
Amanda Verrone commented that the Trump administration has been driving its entire diplomatic machinery (in the form of threats, pressure, and blackmail) against a number of countries, mainly in Europe and Latin America, to change their historic vote in favor of ending the blockade.
She remembered that the blockade against Cuba has lasted for more than six decades, but it intensified in 2019 with the implementation of the maximum pressure policy and 243 new sanctions by the first Trump administration, compounded by the effects of the pandemic.
