Writing for the newspaper *La Hora*, author Walter del Cid noted that this will mark the 34th time—with the exception of 2020—that a vote has been held on this issue since 1992. On average, 185 countries have consistently voted in favor of ending the measure.

The Caribbean nation has been subjected to a blockade with implications that extend to third parties. Since 1960, this has involved coercive measures that have evolved into increasingly severe extraterritorial applications, such as the Helms-Burton Act.

In recent months, the author pointed out, the intimidation resulting from the global reach of this law has even prevented the purchase of petroleum-based energy resources.

Cuba, he added, is mired in a humanitarian crisis—the likes of which has never before been imposed upon a nation.

“Unless we move beyond the flowery rhetoric often heard in UN interventions and adopt concrete measures to lift the restrictions that have been in place for over sixty years, our generation may well become a silent witness to the dehumanization of humanity itself, as it stands by while the people of Cuba face such relentless assaults and indignities,” del Cid emphasized.

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