What occurred this Wednesday during the debate on item 37 of the UNGA agenda, "Necessity of ending the economic, commercial, and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba," borders on the utmost absurdity.

The General Assembly resolution, titled "Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba," was approved with 130 votes in favor, 17 against, and 25 abstentions.

Curiously, such a vote occurs at a time when Cuba has been attacked more than ever. Not a week goes by without the Island being the subject of threats of military intervention or increased sanctions against companies and individuals by the current United States government—something that, apparently, must have gone unnoticed by countries that, overnight, have changed their position regarding the growing genocide against the Cuban people.

The explanation for such blindness in the face of exaggerated aggressiveness against Cuba, which has plunged the people into extreme hardship, has nothing to do with a policy change on the Island that would justify such a crime, but rather everything to do with the violation of international law by a government attempting to prevent its visible decline through the imposition of force.

What has indeed changed in recent times is the impunity with which the world has witnessed the extermination of the Palestinian people, the kidnapping of presidents, the outbreak of a war in the Middle East, the neo-fascist persecution of immigrants, and the reactivation of the old Monroe Doctrine, which now seems to proclaim that not just the American continent, but the entire world belongs to Americans.

It is no surprise, therefore, that some grow frightened by the bluster, commercial blackmail, and other pressure tactics, in the most vulgar mafia style, with which the United States attempts to impose its global domination.

In the case of the latest vote in the General Assembly regarding the United States blockade against Cuba, those who hesitated under pressure from the alleged master proved not only blind, but seemingly deaf to the new lies that are now added to the non-existent Havana Syndrome or the alleged trafficking of, of all people, life-saving doctors in the most remote corners of the world.

What lie can justify punishing an entire nation by means of a fuel blockade? How can anyone with a minimum of shame believe that someone wishes to save a person who is being tortured and whose most fundamental human rights are violated by being deprived of access to electricity, food, drinking water, and healthcare?

If the United States wanted to convince the world that its blockade against Cuba does not exist, it should simply repeal the 1992 Torricelli Act, which prohibits ships trading with Cuba from docking in U.S. ports for a period of 180 days; or invalidate the extraterritorial Helms-Burton Act of 1996, which states that the so-called embargo will only be lifted by the U.S. Congress after the establishment of a U.S.-imposed transition government on the Island.

The sole aim of the current United States government is to unleash a bloodbath among Cubans that would somehow justify its cruelty. It aims to impose, through the manipulation of falsehoods, the old imperial maxim of divide and conquer, only to intervene opportunistically later—much like they did during the first imperialist war of 1898, after denying aid to the Mambises for 30 years.

With the absurd farce staged in the debate of item 37 on the UNGA agenda, and on the eve of the midterm elections, the failed Trump administration, rejected today by the majority of Americans, seeks to rally those afflicted with the Platt Amendment syndrome who still reside in Florida to gain a few votes.

With its mask of deceptions and threats, the executioner may intimidate its accomplices and console annexationists, but the people of Cuba know, perhaps better than anyone, who the real genocidal perpetrator is. (CubaSí)