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WASHINGTON—The Massachusetts congressional delegation was furious. The Biden administration had early on promised to remove Cuba from the U.S. list of State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT). Massachusetts Rep. Jim McGovern took comfort from Congress having been told the process was underway.

WASHINGTON—The Massachusetts congressional delegation was furious. The Biden administration had early on promised to remove Cuba from the U.S. list of State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT). Massachusetts Rep. Jim McGovern took comfort from Congress having been told the process was underway.

Addressing a meeting of government ministers and the press in Havana on Aug. 11, Cuba’s Vice Prime Minister Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca exploded when discussing the food crisis gripping the nation. “It takes work to produce food. Everyone wants food deliveries, but we do nothing to produce it.

WASHINGTON—A group of local councilors in the District of Columbia is urging the Biden administration to remove Cuba from the State Sponsors of Terrorism List and lift the six-decade-old political and economic blockade of the island. On Feb.

Sixty years of US embargo on Cuba have not starved the island into ‘democratisation’, the way Washington hoped.