{"id":285277,"date":"2025-01-20T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=285277"},"modified":"2025-01-16T06:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T06:14:13","slug":"far-too-little-far-too-late-say-critics-as-biden-finally-removes-cuba-from-terror-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/01\/far-too-little-far-too-late-say-critics-as-biden-finally-removes-cuba-from-terror-list\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Far too Little, far too Late,’ Say Critics as Biden Finally Removes Cuba from Terror List"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CodePink led a rally against the U.S. economic blockade of Cuba outside the White House in Washington, D.C. on 2 Nov 2022.\u00a0 (Photo: CodePink)<\/p><\/div>\n

“Seriously? You wait until six days before leaving office to do what you promised to do during your 2020 campaign?” said one observer. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

14 Jan 2025 <\/em>– In a move likely to be reversed by the incoming Trump administration, President Joe Biden today notified Congress of his intent to remove Cuba from the U.S. State Sponsors of Terrorism list<\/a>, a designation that critics have long condemned as politically motivated and meritless.<\/p>\n

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Noting that “the government of Cuba has not provided any support for international terrorism” and has “provided assurances” that it will not do so in the future, the White House said in a memo<\/a> that the Biden administration is moving to rescind the first Trump administration’s January 2021 addition<\/a> of Cuba to the State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT) list and take other measures to ease some sanctions on the long-suffering island of 11 million inhabitants.<\/p>\n

Cuba’s SSOT designation was based mostly on the socialist nation’s harboring of leftist Colombian rebels and several U.S. fugitives from justice for alleged crimes committed decades ago, even though no other country has been placed on the SSOT list for such a reason and despite right-wing Cuban exile terrorists<\/a> enjoying citizenship\u2014and even heroic status<\/a>\u2014in the United States.<\/p>\n

“Despite its limited nature, it is a decision in the right direction and in line with the sustained and firm demand of the government and people of Cuba, and with the broad, emphatic, and repeated call of many governments, especially Latin America and the Caribbean, of Cubans living abroad, political, religious and social organizations, and numerous political figures from the United States and other countries,” the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“It is important to note that the economic blockade and much of the dozen coercive measures that have been put into effect since 2017 remain in force to strengthen it, with full extraterritorial effect and in violation of international law and human rights of all Cubans,” the ministry added.<\/p>\n

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