Cuba envoy warns embargo support could cost lives

Cu­ba’s am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go, Gus­ta­vo Veliz, has warned that coun­tries sup­port­ing the Unit­ed States’ po­si­tion on its eco­nom­ic em­bar­go against Cu­ba risk be­com­ing com­plic­it in a pol­i­cy that could cost lives.

His warn­ing fol­lowed T&T’s his­toric de­ci­sion to vote against a Unit­ed Na­tions res­o­lu­tion call­ing for an end to the em­bar­go.

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In a state­ment af­ter Wednes­day’s vote at the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly (UN­GA), Veliz ac­cused the US of pur­su­ing a pol­i­cy with dev­as­tat­ing hu­man­i­tar­i­an con­se­quences for the Cuban peo­ple.