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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