{"id":229511,"date":"2023-02-20T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=229511"},"modified":"2023-02-14T07:04:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T07:04:05","slug":"cuba-is-not-a-state-sponsor-of-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/02\/cuba-is-not-a-state-sponsor-of-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba Is Not a State Sponsor of Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"

13 Feb 2023 – <\/em>Cuba, a country of 11 million people, has been under an illegal embargo by the United States government for over six decades.<\/p>\n

Despite this embargo, Cuba\u2019s people have been able to transcend the indignities of hunger, ill health, and illiteracy, all three being social plagues that continue to trouble much of the world.<\/p>\n

Due to its innovations in health care delivery, for instance, Cuba has been able to send its medical workers to other countries, including during the pandemic, to provide vital assistance. Cuba exports its medical workers, not terrorism.<\/p>\n

In the last days of the Trump administration, the U.S. government returned Cuba to its state sponsors of terrorism list.<\/p>\n

This was a vindictive act. Trump said it was because Cuba played host to guerrilla groups from Colombia, which was actually part of Cuba\u2019s role as host of the peace talks.<\/p>\n

Cuba played a key role in bringing peace in Colombia, a country that has been wracked by a terrible civil war since 1948 that claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. For two years, the Biden administration has maintained Trump\u2019s vindictive policy, one that punishes Cuba not for terrorism but for the promotion of peace.<\/p>\n

Biden can remove Cuba from this list with a stroke of his pen. It\u2019s as simple as that. When he was running for the presidency, Biden said he would even reverse the harsher of Trump\u2019s sanctions. But he has not done so. He must do so now.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, logician, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes described as “the father of modern linguistics,” Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy, and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He has spent more than half a century at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is Institute Professor Emeritus, and is the author of over 100 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, mass media,<\/em> US foreign policy, social issues, Latin American and European history, and more.<\/em> His latest books are <\/em>Failed States, The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy<\/a> and <\/em>Hegemony or Survival<\/a>, both in the American Empire Project<\/a> series at Metropolitan Books.<\/em> \u00a0noamchomsky@\u200bemail.arizona.edu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> <\/em>Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, editor and journalist. He is a writing fellow and chief correspondent at<\/em> Globetrotter. He is the director of <\/em>Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research<\/a> and a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies<\/a>, Renmin University of China. He has written more than 20 books, including <\/em>The Darker Nations<\/a> and <\/em>The Poorer Nations<\/a>. His latest book is <\/em>Washington Bullets<\/a>, with an introduction by Evo Morales Ayma.<\/em><\/p>\n

This article was produced by <\/em>Globetrotter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

13 Feb 2023 – Cuba, with 11 million people, has been under an illegal embargo by the USA for over six decades. Despite this, Cuba\u2019s people have been able to transcend the indignities of hunger, ill health and illiteracy, social plagues that still troubles much of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":176668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[2642,1473,417,530,1337,1126,1050,541,923,70],"class_list":["post-229511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin-america-and-the-caribbean","tag-anti-imperialism","tag-blockade","tag-bullying","tag-cuba","tag-embargo","tag-hegemony","tag-imperialism","tag-latin-america-caribbean","tag-sanctions","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}