The Trump administration has reinstated Cuba as a “terrorist sponsoring state”, reversing a decision taken by the Obama administration in 2015 as part of an effort to improve relations with the country.
“The Trump administration has focused from the outset on denying the Castro regime the resources it uses to oppress its people at home and combat its evil interference in Venezuela and the rest of the Western Hemisphere,” said the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
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The change, which takes place just over a week before the president-elect Joe Biden
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In his statement, Pompeo accused Cuba of harboring “murderers, bomb makers and kidnappers” as a justification for the change. He used the country’s decision to provide refuge to an American convicted of the death of a state policeman in 1973 as an example.
The Trump administration’s decision came two months after Biden lost to President Trump
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The government is also preparing to designate Yemen’s Houthi rebels as a terrorist organization, a decision that drew outrage from humanitarian aid organizations critical of the US role in the Saudi-led war in that country.