Support for ending the US embargo on Cuba falls to a 30-year low at the UN

The UN General Assembly voted 130 to 17, with 25 abstentions, to call for an end to the US embargo on Cuba, the lowest support in three decades after more than 160 countries backed the same measure a year earlier. Germany, Italy and Latvia abstained for the first time in 34 years, as Washington keeps up pressure that in January included tariff threats on countries supplying oil to Cuba, which sharply cut fuel deliveries and contributed to the island's recent power cuts. US Ambassador Mike Waltz said Cuba's troubles are “exclusively the fault of this corrupt communist regime”, while Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said the world “has once again spoken out overwhelmingly against the blockade”.

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