U.S. in voting against the resolution as did Palau every year from 2004 to 2008. In 2010, the General Assembly condemned the embargo, 187 to 2 with 3 abstentions. Israel sided with the U.S., while Marshall Islands, Palau and Micronesia abstained. In 2014, out of the 193-nation assembly, 188 countries voted in favour of the resolution, the United States and Israel voted against, and the Pacific Island nations Palau, Marshall Islands and Micronesia abstained. The United Nations General Assembly voted in favour of a resolution demanding an end to the embargo in both 2021 and 2022. 184 countries voted in favour of the resolution in 2021, while 185 voted in favour in 2022. The United States and Israel voted against in both years. Brazil and Ukraine abstained in both years, while Colombia abstained in 2021. Response by governments On May 1, 2009, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, while speaking about his meeting U.S. President Barack Obama at a summit days earlier, stated "if President Obama does not dismantle this savage blockade of the Cuban people, then it is all a lie, it will all be a great farce and the U.S. empire will be alive and well, threatening us." The Helms-Burton Act has been the target of criticism from Canadian and European governments in particular, who object to what they say is the extraterritorial pretensions of a piece of legislation aimed at punishing non-U.S. corporations and non-U.S. investors who have economic interests in Cuba. In the House of Commons of Canada, Helms-Burton was mocked by the introduction of the Godfrey-Milliken Bill, which called for the return of property of United Empire Loyalists seized by the American government as a result of the American Revolution (the bill never became law). The European Council has stated that it: Other critics Some critics of the embargo say that the embargo helps the Cuban government more than it hurts it, by providing it with a bogeyman for all of Cuba's misfortunes. Hillary Clinton publicly shared the view that the embargo helps the Castros, saying that "It is my personal belief that the Castros do not want to see an end to the embargo and do no want to see normalization with the United States, because they would lose all of their excuses for what hasn't happened in Cuba in the last 50 years." Clinton said in the same interview that "we're open to changing with