The Trump administration has re-listed Cuba as a “state sponsor of terrorism,” reversing a decision made by the Obama administration in 2015 as part of an effort to improve relations with the country.
“The Trump administration has focused from the beginning on denying the Castro regime the resources it uses to oppress its people at home and counter its malignant injection into Venezuela and the rest of the Western Hemisphere,” he said. secretary of state Mike Pompeo
Mike Pompeo Lawyers reject Trump’s terrorist designation over Houthis Pompeo’s dispute with US global media agency intensifies Trump administration and appoints Cuba as “sponsor of terrorism” MORE in a statement Monday, referring to Raúl Castro. “With this action, we will hold the Cuban government accountable again and send a clear message: the Castro regime must end its support for international terrorism and the subversion of American justice.”
The measure, which comes just over a week before the president-elect Joe Biden
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In his statement, Pompeo accused Cuba of hosting “assassins, bomb makers and kidnappers” as justification for the move. He used as an example the country’s decision to provide refuge to an American convicted of killing a state soldier in 1973.
The Trump administration’s decision comes two months after Biden lost President Trump
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The administration also intends to designate Yemen’s Houthi rebels as a terrorist organization, a decision that has sparked outrage from humanitarian aid organizations that have criticized the United States’ role in the Saudi-led war. country.