by Frances Martel at Breitbart
Leftist President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday he would remove Cuba from the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism, leaving only Iran, Syria, and North Korea on the list.
Biden claimed in his declaration that Cuba had not sponsored terrorism for six months, apparently enough to remove it from the list.
Cuba has been on the list for most of the years between 1982 and 2025, with the exception of six years between 2015 and 2021 after leftist President Barack Obama – whom Biden served as vice president – removed the communist regime from a list as part of a larger package of concessions to Havana. The Obama concession policy resulted in a dramatic increase in political and religious persecution on the island and served to embolden Cuba to forge deeper relationships with global terror entities such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and the government of Iran.
President-elect Donald Trump restored Cuba to the list of state sponsors of terrorism in 2021 on the grounds that the Castro regime maintains relationships with several jihadist terror entities and narco-terrorist militias such as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Latin America.
The “state sponsor of terrorism” label comes with hefty economic sanctions and diplomatic limitations. According to the State Department, state sponsors of terrorism face “restrictions on U.S. foreign assistance; a ban on defense exports and sales; certain controls over exports of dual use items; and miscellaneous financial and other restrictions.”
Trump will be inaugurated into a second term as president on Monday. The Biden administration made the decision with less than a week of its tenure remaining and announced it the day before Trump’s choice to lead the State Department, Cuban-American Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), is scheduled to appear before Congress for confirmation.
Disregarding the substantial evidence that communist Cuba enables…
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