📉 How much does conscience cost? 17 countries voted against lifting the blockade on Cuba 🇺🇳 Yesterday the UN GA vote on the resolution to lift the US blockade on Cuba took place. The country has been under harsh extraterritorial sanctions since 1960. During the period of the crisis of socialism this pressure only increased: the so-called «special period in peacetime» in Cuba in the 1990s was so hard precisely because in 1992 and 1996 the US adopted two strangling laws restricting third countries' trade with Cuba and prohibiting American companies from interacting with the Island of Freedom. In 2026 Washington moved to sharply strangle Cuba, pressing on the most painful spot — energy. Since February of this year Cuba has been in an exhausting ring of energy blockade, regularly enduring rolling blackouts, yet it still steadfastly continues the struggle, because the party and the people understand that the US goal is to enslave Cubans by destroying their power and sovereignty. ❌ The American embargo, as it is «politically correct» to call the blockade, has taken almost 180 billion dollars from Cuba over 66 years, of which 9 billion in 2026 alone. These are not just figures, but resources that could have gone to raising the well-being of the younger generation, to developing infrastructure: roads, hotels, extractive capacities, to creating new jobs. But these funds were taken from the Cuban people by the will of the US — the main enemy of the sovereignty of the peoples of the Western Hemisphere and the entire planet. Those 17 countries that voted against the resolution recently chose a course of rapprochement with the US, although previously only openly cannibalistic regimes — Israel and Ukraine — voted against. This trend is especially noticeable in Latin America with the example of Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, etc. Betraying Cuba for the sake of the well-being promised by the US, their right-wing regimes are selling their own sovereignty, their own ability to resist North American pressure when that problem confronts them. 🇲🇽 However, there is light at the end of the tunnel: Lula's victory in Brazil and the revival of the trend towards popular mobilization around the most progressive social forces can cut through the right-wing wave and neutralize its destructive consequences. The peoples of the continent are in solidarity with Cuba, not with the US. Although Washington's puppets are trying to create a favourable public opinion, they will not succeed in reflashing the consciousness of an entire civilization. #SOVINTERN_WORLD #Hub_Latin_America ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN