US threats against Cuba ‘echo colonial-era practices’ — UN experts
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June 2, 2026
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GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — United Nations (UN) rights experts said Tuesday that escalating United States (US) “threats and coercion” against Cuba smacked of “colonial-era practices”, which they warned undermined international peace and security.
The United States has heaped pressure on Cuba since January, with President Donald Trump musing about overthrowing the country’s leadership, as US forces did in Venezuela that month.
“Efforts to change the constitutional order of a sovereign state through threats and coercion echo colonial-era practices,” three independent United Nations experts said in a statement.
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