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Los Angeles Times editorial: The useless Cuba embargo

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This Los Angeles Times editorial writes:

Among New York’s rites of autumn -- the marathon, the rainbow of leaves in Central Park, the sudden profusion of wool overcoats -- a new one has emerged at the United Nations. In each of the last 16 years, the General Assembly has voted to condemn the United States for its embargo of Cuba. This year’s ceremonial vote takes place today, and if it’s anything like last year’s, it will be overwhelming. Only Israel, the Marshall Islands and Palau stood with the U.S. in the 184-4 tally last October. Washington doesn’t and shouldn’t design its laws around U.N. opinion, but it’s instructive to learn what even this country’s closest allies think of the Cuban embargo. Colombia, one of only a handful of Latin American countries whose government remains firmly pro-U.S., stated in a U.N. report on the issue that it ‘thinks this kind of action should stop and that member states should move ahead with building relations of friendship.’ In the same report, the European Union said that it and its member nations ‘have been clearly expressing their opposition to the extraterritorial extension of the United States embargo.’

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-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City

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