The United Nations General Assembly has voted to condemn the United States’ embargo on Cuba for the 32nd consecutive year. On Wednesday, 187 countries voted in favor of lifting the decades-old sanctions; only the U.S. and Israel voted against the nonbinding resolution. This is Cuba’s ambassador to the U.N., Soberón Guzmán.

Ernesto Soberón Guzmán: “The U.S. once again has used lies and manipulation to justify the blockade against Cuba. As it also does every year, its isolation grows and its loss of credibility on the international stage as a result of this criminal policy. What they’re doing seems to have no limits. They hold the Cuban government responsible for the suffocation caused by the blockade imposed on our country.”

Following Wednesday’s vote, Argentina’s far-right President Javier Milei fired his foreign minister, replacing her with Argentina’s ambassador to Washington. Milei’s office said after the reshuffle that Argentina was “categorically opposed to the Cuban dictatorship.”