According to a post on his social media account by President Gustavo Petro, the US government was isolated by the support for the Cuban resolution, and he described those who avoided speaking out against the blockade as “just seven horsemen of the apocalypse.”

The Colombian Communist Party and the Communist Youth expressed their full solidarity in a statement and voiced their support for the Cuban people, their Communist Party, and the revolutionary government.

They emphasized that they join the voices around the world demanding, from the UN General Assembly, the definitive end to the economic, financial, and commercial blockade to which Cuba has been subjected for more than half a century.

They also celebrated the 165 votes calling for an end to the coercive policies and considered the seven votes against and the 12 abstentions to be part of Donald Trump’s imperialist strategy to pressure other countries to isolate and exacerbate the harm done to Cuba.

The Comunes Party caucus also expressed its strongest solidarity with the Cuban people in the face of what it described as a criminal policy, “in open violation of International Law, the Charter of the United Nations, and the principles of sovereignty, self-determination, and non-interference.”

The Friendship Group between the Congress of Colombia and the National Assembly of People’s Power of Cuba (the unicameral parliament) also demanded an end to the blockade against the island.

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