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October 17, 2018

Cuban Diplomats Protest U.S. Embargo at U.N.
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Elsewhere at the U.N., diplomats from Bolivia joined their Cuban
counterparts Tuesday in a protest that drowned out the launch of a U.S.
effort denouncing Cuba over political prisoners. The diplomats chanted,
"Cuba yes, blockade no!"-a reference to a stifling embargo unilaterally
placed by the U.S. on the Caribbean island nation for nearly 60 years.
The protest came as the Trump administration continues to roll back a
thaw in U.S.-Cuban relations begun under Obama; it comes two weeks
before the U.N. General Assembly is set to vote on a nonbinding
resolution calling for an end to the embargo. The General Assembly has
approved similar resolutions each year for over a quarter-century.


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