Cuba Vows Lawsuit Over U.S. Embargo

UNITED NATIONS — Cuba said Tuesday that it will file a $100-billion lawsuit against the U.S. government seeking compensation for damages inflicted by Washington’s 4-decade-old economic embargo.

Ricardo Alarcon, president of Cuba’s National Assembly, made the announcement shortly before the U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly for the eighth straight year to condemn the embargo and demand that it be lifted.

A total of 155 of the assembly’s 188 members voted in favor of a nonbinding resolution calling for the United States to repeal the embargo it imposed not long after Fidel Castro seized power in the island nation in 1959. The U.S. rejected the resolution, saying the issue has nothing to do with the General Assembly.

Alarcon refused to say where or when the suit would be filed.