LatAm and Caribbean Nations Divided in Vote to Expel Russia from Human Rights Council
LatAm and Caribbean Nations Divided in Vote to Expel Russia from Human Rights Council
"It’s disappointing but not surprising that Cuba and Nicaragua voted against the resolution and that so many other Latin American nations abstained," said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to Miami Herald.
Cuba and Nicaragua voted Thursday against expelling Russia from the United Nations Human Rights Council over atrocities committed by its forces during the war in Ukraine, shifting from their previous, more cautious abstention votes to signal their open support for Moscow.
Bolivia also voted against it. But more surprisingly, two of the region’s heavyweights, Mexico and Brazil, abstained from voting, along with El Salvador, Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, showing that Latin America and the Caribbean continue to be divided in their response to the war in Ukraine. […]
“It’s disappointing but not surprising that Cuba and Nicaragua voted against the resolution and that so many other Latin American nations abstained,” said Eric Farnsworth, vice president of the Council of the Americas and Americas Society.
“At this point, after Russia’s butchery in Bucha and elsewhere has been exposed, refusing to condemn Russia for its actions in Ukraine is not just irresponsible but inhumane, no matter how close the relationship may be with Moscow,” Farnsworth said. “Such ‘active nonalignment’ threatens to decrease regional relevance in the management of global issues. It is also morally obtuse.”…
