Resolution passed in New York against the US blockade of Cuba

A resolution was passed by the New York City Council urging the U.S. Congress and President Joe Biden to lift the blockade against Cuba because of the harm it causes to its people.

Activist Rosemarie Mealy told Prensa Latina via telephone: “We will have a press conference this morning at City Hall,” offering details on the text (Res. No. 285-A), endorsed with a vote of 49 to 0.

The document calls for the elimination of all prohibitions for Americans to travel freely to Cuba and for the Biden administration to remove Cuba from the unilateral list of State Sponsors of Terrorism.

Some 90 city councils, county boards, legislatures, school boards, labor councils, unions (including the New York University Professional Staff Congress), and other organizations, she said, have called on Biden to end anti-Cuba hostility and stifling policies.