Numerous reports indicate President Joe Biden’s administration will remove Cuba from America’s list of state sponsors of terrorism.
President-elect Donald Trump can reverse the move once he takes office. Also, more than likely, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) will become a Secretary of State.
Rubio’s family comes from Cuba. From The Associated Press:
In the final days of Trump’s first administration, on Jan. 11, 2021, the White House reinstated the designation, which had been reversed during the period of rapprochement between Cuba and the United States during President Barack Obama’s second term in office. In doing so, the Trump administration cited Cuba’s support for Venezuela’s leader, Nicolas Maduro, and its refusal to extradite Colombian rebels to Colombia, among other issues, including its continued harboring of wanted Americans.
The move to designate Cuba by Trump was one of several foreign policy moves he made in the final days of his first term.
Human rights groups and activists, including the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, have been pressing the Biden administration to lift the designation.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), whose family also comes from Cuba, lashed out at Biden.
“Today’s decision is unacceptable on its merits,” said Cruz in a statement, according to the AP. “The terrorism advanced by the Cuban regime has not ceased. I will work with President Trump and my colleagues to immediately reverse and limit the damage from the decision.”
Breitbart’s Frances Martel, who has extensive knowledge about Cubs due to family, wrote extensively about the country’s background in terrorism (it was an honor to work under her in National Security at Breitbart for many years):
The Castro regime, in power for over half a century, has developed deep ties to a variety of global terrorist threats around the world. Its most prominent such relationship was with the FARC, a communist terror organization headquartered in Colombia that killed tens of thousands, with Cuban support, since attempting to foster a communist revolution in the country in the 1970s. Since then, the FARC has evolved into one of the world’s most sophisticated drug trafficking operations. FARC leaders have been invited to march in Cuban regime parades and Cuba facilitated a catastrophic “peace deal” with the Colombian government that granted the terrorists guaranteed Congressional representation in 2016. Biden also removed the FARC’s terrorist designation in 2021.
Cuba also maintains a strong alliance with Iran, the world’s premier state sponsor of terrorism, and its proxy terror group Hezbollah. Hezbollah is close to their mutual political ally Venezuela, which reportedly granted its Middle Eastern terrorists genuine, but illegitimate, passports with the help of the Cuban government throughout the 2010s.
The Castro regime has also enthusiastically supported another Iranian terror proxy, Hamas, following the massacre of an estimated 1,200 people and scores of atrocities committed during an invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023. Shortly after the terrorist catastrophe, Cuba held an anti-Israel “concert for peace in Palestine” and displayed a massive light display of the Palestinian flag in the heart of Havana.
“Our country is, and always will be, alongside the cause of the brotherly people of Palestine,” figurehead President Miguel Díaz-Canel declared at the time.
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One can make a rather strong argument that the Biden administration could be listed as a state sponsor of terrorism.
I’m afraid that it’ll be a while before we discover exactly how much damage these traitors have done.
Biden did just pledge billions to the Islamist’s that took over their government.
Joe Biden and Hunter, the prodigal son, better cash their grifter checks fast. The stop payments order will take effect on January 20th when Trump takes the oath. Did China and the others get their money’s worth?
Biden Desperately Searches For Anything Else He Can Screw Up In The Next 6 Days
Another BB headline that is actually true.
The suggestion “to detonate a nuclear explosion on the San Andreas Fault to cause half of California to fall into the ocean” might be one of his better ideas. It could help with the wild fires.
Maybe the USCCB should recall Jesus Christ throwing people out of the Temple. And Cuba is very far removed from being a temple. While the USCCB wants prayers for everyone, today times call for more than that – the evil in the world needs to be called out, period. How many, USCCB, has Cuba murdered, imprisoned, tortured, etc. Removing Cuba from this list will make zero difference in this practice.
These next 6 days should prove interesting.
Recall how the vile narcissist-incompetent-dunce, Obama, received zero criticism and opprobrium from the disgraceful and nauseatingly water-carrying/reverential Dhimmi-crat media organs, for his indefensible and contemptible visit to Cuba, at which he serenaded dictator Raoul Castro like a starstruck, communist fangirl.
If a GOP President had engaged in the same outrageous and intemperate theatrics of palling around with a dictator who had the blood of countless innocents on his hands, you can be sure the Dhimmi-crat media organs would have found the gumption to criticize him for it.
But, in the rotten, neo-communist salons in which the wretched Obama marinated, Fidel Castro is revered as an alleged Robin Hood-type figure, so, naturally Obama himself felt not even a scintilla of shame or doubt about making such a disgraceful visit.
So does this mean DHS can start removing the thousands of Cuban Nationals with criminal records from the United States?
They can never naturalize to become US Citizens but they can’t be deported….
No, it’s got nothing to do with Cuban citizens. It’s the Cuban government that sponsors international terrorism.
Not sure where you are getting the notion that there are “thousands” of Cuban nationals with criminal records running around the U.S.
Most of the Cuban emigres have settled in Florida or elsewhere on the east coast, where they are among the staunchest supporters of President Trump, specifically, and, the GOP, broadly, that you’ll ever encounter.
I remember a Florida cop saying he wished more of Florida’s population were Cubans ; crime would go down because they were the most law-abiding demographic.
Law-abiding, hard-working, religious and traditional family values.
The ‘thousands’ refers to the thousands Castro introduced into the US when he emptied his prisons and asylums into the Mariel Boatlift.
What Castro seems to have not understood was that a whole host of things that are crimes in Cuba are what’s called ‘normal life’ in the rest of the free world.
So, while some actual criminals –and spies– did slip in, it’s not a crime to sell goods freely in most of the world.
The top photo is New Havana dressed up for foolish Westerners – Soviet era valuta shops off limits to Cuban peasants.
Oooh, look at the cool old American cars! while window shopping knock-off Prada handbags.
Go to the old Havana of rust stained doors and iron work, moldy plaster, peeling paint, leaky, dilapidated buildings unfit for human habitation.
That’s where all the shabby chic photo artists glory in the terrible beauty of ruinous communism hang out. They used to print that crap in $100 glossy coffee table books or magazines or exhibit them in trendy art galleries.
And then they go home to their safe, nicely appointed loft studios.
I think this is a great move. Since there is absolutely no reason to do this, it is a clear and unmistakable admission of guilt (or treason) by Traitor Joe and his junta. They could hardly have picked a better action to fully display their idiocy and unbridled hate of America and Americanism … though they might give that a go with the last, illegitimate pardons to come out of this bunch of lowlife traitors.
So the ‘Havana Syndrome’ mystery has been solved then?
Biden is hard left, he has never been mainstream.
I just finished wathing the tail en of a movie where the villain, in the final foot chase, is running down filthy alleys, throwing everything he can reach across the alley behind him to slow or stop the hero from capturing him.
Then I logged in here, read this, and said to myself, “This is where I came in.”
Jeepers cripes, it’s only FIVE DAYS.
Can’t somebody lock up the matches, guns, and liquor for FIVE DAYS???