The United States again declared Cuba as “Esta …

A few days after the handing over of power, the government of Donald Trump once again included Cuba in its list of “States sponsors of terrorism”, hence former President Barack Obama took the island in 2015 with his policy of rapprochement. The inclusion of a country in this blacklist involves trade barriers and more sanctions from which Cuba is already suffering because of the trade and financial embargo imposed by the United States. he Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez defined the decision as a “hypocritical” act of “political opportunism”.

“With this measure, we will once again hold the Cuban government to account and send a clear message: Castro’s regime must end its support for international terrorism and the subversion of American justice“said the head of US diplomacy, Mike Pompeo, referring to the late Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl, leaders of the 1959 revolution. Pompeo based his decision on Cuba’s “malicious interference” in Venezuela and other Latin American countries.

In 2015 Obama resumed bilateral relations with then-President Raúl Castro and removed Cuba from the list of states that support terrorism, declaring that America’s half-century efforts to isolate the island “had been a failure.” But Trump reversed that approach when he took office in 2017., intensifying the embargo in force since 1962.

In his four years in office, Trump has once again reduced the US embassy in Havana to its bare minimum, again imposed sanctions and even broadened them. Joe Biden’s future government could remove Cuba from the list of terrorist sponsor countries, but it would have to do a formal review first, which means the measure may be on hold for months.

With a message written in Spanish and English, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez did not hide his discomfort. “The political expediency of this action is recognized by anyone who is sincerely concerned about the scourge of terrorism and its victims,” Rodríguez said on his Twitter account, where he condemned “Cuba’s hypocritical and cynical characterization as a sponsoring state of terrorism.”