How Biden Embraced Trump’s Terror Smear Against Cuba Four years ago, Donald Trump baselessly put Cuba on the State Sponsors of Terrorism list. As president, Joe Biden went along with the lie.
Four years ago, a week after the MAGA brigades stormed the Capitol, Donald Trump’s outgoing administration put Cuba on the State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT) list. The move irked former and current US officials — there is a broad consensus in the intelligence community that Cuba does not sponsor terrorism. But Joe Biden, who was part of the Obama administration’s legacy-making rapprochement with the island, was expected to promptly reverse it. Four years later, Cuba is still on the list. “Nobody worth their salt in the world of counterterrorism sees Cuba as a country that would do the United States harm,” said Jason Blazakis, director of the State Department’s Counterterrorism Finance and Designations Office from 2008 to 2018. “The US is willing to negotiate with the Taliban. Yet here we are with a country ninety miles away, not committing any acts of terrorism, and taking a hard line.” Perhaps no single aspect of Joe Biden’s Latin America policy has been as controversial, confounding, and defining as his refusal to remove Cuba from the terror blacklist, which has battered Cuba’s economy by cutting it off from trade, credit, and investment. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#34587): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/34587 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/110583028/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
