An international coalition of Cuban democratic forces and civil society organizations presented a formal appeal in Miami on Wednesday, demanding that the world's democratic nations vote against— or at least abstain from— the annual resolution that the Cuban regime will submit to the UN General Assembly regarding the U.S. embargo, scheduled for October 27 and 28.
The event took place at 11:00 a.m. at the headquarters of the Cuban Democratic Directorate in Miami, organized by the Cuban Resistance Assembly (ARC) and the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), as part of the Liberation Agreement.
The submitted document has accumulated over 1,000 endorsements, including more than 550 signatures collected through a digital platform, from activists in Havana, Santiago de Cuba, Camagüey, and Guantánamo, as well as from the exile community in the United States, Spain, Uruguay, Mexico, Argentina, Sweden, Norway, Brazil, and Germany.
José Daniel Ferrer, founder of UNPACU, explained in a video shared on social media that "the letter already has nearly 600 signatures from opposition leaders inside and outside of Cuba" and that it is "addressed to all democratic countries, to all the delegations" that will participate in the vote.
Ferrer went straight to emphasize the coalition's main argument: "We are asking you to vote against that resolution because it is full of falsehoods, it is full of lies, as it blames the United States for what is solely the fault of the Cuban regime."
The ARC statement describes it as an "insult to the respectability of the United Nations to submit a demonstrably false resolution for a vote," referring to the preamble of the Cuban text, which invokes the "need to end the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba."
The coalition also denounces the propaganda use that the regime makes of this vote: "Its approval has been presented to the Cuban people as evidence of the worldwide support for the dictatorial regime that oppresses them and as a political victory against the United States," the statement warns.
It also directly challenges the participating countries: "Will those nations agree with the interpretation that the Castro regime makes regarding their vote on the resolution?"
To support its argument, the ARC points out that between January and July 2026, the United States exported approximately 674 million dollars in goods to Cuba, including almost 157 million in fuels, a figure that fundamentally contradicts the official narrative of the "total blockade."
Ferrer was even more emphatic in rejecting any legitimacy to the text: “One cannot vote in favor of that resolution. Because besides being a lie, it is promoted by a regime that is not only an enemy of the Cuban people, of the rights and freedom of the Cuban people. It is an enemy of freedom, democracy, human rights, and market economics throughout the continent and the world.”
The call comes in the context of a growing erosion of international support for the Cuban resolution: in October 2025, the resolution was approved with 165 votes in favor, seven against, and 12 abstentions, marking the lowest level of support in years.
In July 2026, when the regime called for an extraordinary urgent debate on the embargo, the vote to authorize that debate received only 136 votes in favor, nine against, and 30 abstentions, double that of the previous year, indicating a gradual weakening that Havana attempted to present as a victory while concealing the increase in abstentions.
The annual resolution on the embargo, presented continuously since 1992, is non-binding: it expresses the majority position of the member states but does not legally compel Washington to change its policy, as any shift depends solely on the U.S. Congress.
The 2026 voting is scheduled for October 27 and 28, and the coalition directs its appeal especially to the European Union and its member states, the United Kingdom, Norway, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and Latin American democracies.
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