US Re-Designates Cuba State Sponsor Of Terrorism
Washington claims Cuba harbors terrorists, in move Havana calls US cynical political opportunism In an apparent parting shot to its conservative base, the Trump administration on Monday re-designated Cuba a state sponsor of terrorism, claiming that Havana grants safe harbor to international terrorists.
Re-branding Cuba a sponsor of terrorism – a designation ended in 2015, under then-President Barack Obama – marks another step in reversing Obama s softened stance towards the tiny island state, and perhaps the Trump administration s final step before it ends on Jan. 20.
Cuba quickly denounced the controversial move. We condemn the US announced hypocritical and cynical designation of Cuba as a State sponsoring terrorism, said Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on Twitter.
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Rep. Gregory Meeks, the new chair House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the designation would not help the Cuban people and seeks only to tie the hands of the Biden administration.
The Trump Administration has been focused from the start on denying the Castro regime the resources it uses to oppress its people at home, and countering its malign interference in Venezuela and the rest of the Western Hemisphere, said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a statement. With this action, we will once again hold Cuba s government accountable and send a clear message: the Castro regime must end its support for international terrorism and subversion of U.S. justice.
Cuba was placed on the list of state sponsors of terrorism in 1982 under President Ronald Reagan, but was removed in 2015 by President Barack Obama as part of a normalization of relations between the U.S. and Cuba.