Left-leaning President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that he would remove Cuba from the State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism, leaving only Iran, Syria and North Korea. list.
Biden claimed this in his speech. declaration Cuba had not sponsored terrorism for six months, which was apparently enough to remove Cuba from the list.
Cuba was in power from 1982 to 2025, with the exception of six years from 2015 to 2021, after leftist President Barack Obama, of whom Biden served as vice president, removed the communist regime from the list as part of his policy. It has been on the list for most years. A larger concession package to Havana. Obama's policy of concessions led to a dramatic increase in political and religious persecution in Cuba and emboldened Cuba to forge deeper ties with global terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Iranian government.
President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to terrorize Cuba in 2021, citing the Castro regime's ties to multiple jihadist terrorist organizations and narco-terrorist militias, including Latin America's Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Returned to list of supported countries. .
The “state sponsor of terrorism” label comes with heavy economic sanctions and diplomatic restrictions. According to the State Department, state sponsors of terrorism face “Restrictions on U.S. foreign assistance; prohibitions on the export and sale of defense articles; certain restrictions on the export of dual-use items; and various financial and other restrictions.”
Trump will be sworn in for a second term as president on Monday. The Biden administration made the decision with less than a week left in its term, and announced it a day before President Trump was scheduled to select Cuban-American Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) to head the State Department. appear for confirmation before Congress.
Ignoring substantial evidence that communist Cuba enables terrorist activities around the world, Biden announced that in his official certification to remove the country from the list, Cuba would be prohibited from doing so in the future. He said he promised not to do it again.
“The Cuban government has not provided any support to international terrorism in the past six months.”[,]”Official notice read. “The Cuban government has assured that it will not support acts of international terrorism in the future.''
Ahead of the official confirmation, US-based Cuban news agency Marti Noticias said: reportedBiden had already chosen to remove Cuba from the list, three administration officials said. Marti reported that the concessions to the bloody communist regime were the result of significant intervention and mediation by the Vatican. Under Pope Francis, the Vatican has maintained a friendly stance toward the Cuban Communist Party and has repeatedly advocated policies that favor the regime rather than its victims.
of miami heraldciting its only anonymous source, also: reported Regarding the removal of the state sponsorship label, he said it was a “last-minute decision.''
The Castro regime, which has been in power for more than half a century, has forged deep ties to various global terrorist threats around the world. Its most prominent relationship is with FARC, a communist terrorist organization headquartered in Colombia that, with Cuban support, has killed tens of thousands of people since trying to promote a communist revolution in Colombia in the 1970s. Since then, FARC has developed into one of the most sophisticated drug trafficking operations in the world. FARC leaders have been invited to march in the Cuban regime's parade, which facilitated a devastating “peace deal” with the Colombian government that gave the terrorists guarantees of parliamentary representation in 2016. Biden also lifted the terrorist designation of the FARC in 2021.
Cuba also maintains a strong alliance with Iran, the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism, and its terrorist proxy, Hezbollah. Hezbollah has close ties to mutual political ally Venezuela, which reportedly gave genuine but illegal passports to terrorists in the Middle East with support from the Cuban government throughout the 2010s.
The Castro regime also enthusiastically supports another Iranian terrorist proxy, Hamas, following the massacre of an estimated 1,200 people and numerous other atrocities during the October 7, 2023 invasion of Israel. There is. Immediately after the terrorist disaster, Cuba held anti-Israel rallies. A “Concert for Palestine Peace” was held, and a large Palestinian flag was displayed in the center of Havana.
“Our country is and will always be with the cause of the brotherly peoples of Palestine,” declared then representative President Miguel Diaz-Canel.
Diaz-Canel has also helped expand Hamas' propaganda against Israel and is supporting South Africa's case against Israel for defending it against Hamas at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Cuba officially announced its participation in the anti-Israel lawsuit on Monday, according to the Cuban Communist Party newspaper. grandma.
However, terrorism experts have long believed that even before October 7th, warned Cuba “has been providing information to Hamas and holding high-level meetings with Hamas and its main sponsor, the Islamic Republic of Iran, for decades,” he said.
President-elect Donald Trump is widely expected to reverse Biden's decision once he takes office.
