The US argues that the embargo is intended to promote "human rights and fundamental liberties in Cuba" and that humanitarian exceptions are made. US diplomat Paul Folmsbee noted that the United ...

United States on Tuesday voted against a U.N. resolution condemning its embargo on Cuba, even though President Barack Obama has called on Congress to lift the trade restrictions. The vote was the ...

CUBA COMMENTS: For decades Cuba’s primary foreign-policy priority has been ending the U.S. trade embargo on the island. The country dedicates much of its General Assembly diplomacy to getting ...

The report, requested by the Senate Finance Committee, will likely be an important tool as the Obama administration continues to call for an end to the decades-old US trade embargo on Cuba.

Spiralling inflation, shortages of basic goods and the decades-long US economic embargo have made for a dire economic outlook across the board in Cuba. But things are particularly bleak in the ...

The world’s greatest stage is the sprawling Midtown Manhattan complex where leaders meet each year to discuss humanity’s future ...

Guyana and Dominica renewed before the UN their condemnation and the demand that the US economic, financial and commercial ...

And Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel called the U.S. embargo on the ... Mexico and Cuba, the two Latin American nations physically closest to the United States, are disproportionately exposed ...

Cuba last week said it had run short of the wheat flour it needs to produce the bread, a predicament the government blames on the U.S. trade embargo ... to the nearby United States.

The new call was made by the Gambian President, H. E. Adama Barrow, in his speech last Thursday at UNGA79. Barrow said that ...

Lee Mulcahy and his mother, Sandy Mulcahy, known to some as “Mama Sandy,” are expanding their charitable efforts to provide ...

According to Cuba’s U.N. mission, more than 25 countries addressed the embargo at this year’s ... saying that “we once again urge the United States to completely lift its blockade, sanctions ...