UN General Assembly Backs End to US Cuba Embargo With Lowest Support in Years

The U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, adopted a resolution calling for an end to the U.S. economic, commercial and financial embargo of Cuba. The vote was 130 in favor, 17 against and 25 abstentions in the 193-member body. It was the 34th year the assembly has condemned the embargo, but this year more countries voted against or sat out for the first time after a Washington campaign to influence the outcome. Last year 165 countries voted in favor, and in 2024 the count was 187, with only the United States and Israel opposed. India voted yes; Soumya Nair, a counsellor at its U.N. mission, said the embargo should be lifted soon and urged states to repeal laws with extraterritorial effects. The Trump administration is carrying out its most intense pressure campaign on Cuba in decades, and Cuba's foreign minister says the government's plan is to endure.

Breitbart, on the right, leads with the drop in support, calling it a record low since the votes began in the 1990s and crediting Mike Waltz in its headline. It puts "embargo" in quotation marks, calls the vote anti-American and describes the Castro government in harsh terms. It argues that food and medicine are exempt and blames communism, not U.S. policy, for Cuba's poverty. The New York Times, on the left, leads with the Cuban foreign minister's pledge to outlast Trump and describes a U.S. pressure campaign as the most intense in decades. Its excerpt gives no vote totals. Both sides treat Washington's pressure as central, but the right frames it as a diplomatic success, while the left frames it as a campaign Havana says it can withstand. AP, in the alternative group, matches the vote and the first-time no-votes and abstentions. The Hindu adds India's yes vote and Nair's statement, a perspective the others leave out.