Cuba's not a terrorist state -- so why is it still on the US's list?

[Judi Lynn]

Roger McKenzie talks to Cuban ambassador BARBARA MONTALVO ALVAREZ on the ongoing harm caused by the country’s inclusion on the notorious list


CUBA demands its removal from the United States created State Sponsors of Terrorism List (SSOT), the Caribbean island’s ambassador to Britain said in an exclusive interview for the Morning Star.

Her Excellency Barbara Montalvo Alvarez says: “Who is the US to create this list? Who gave them the mandate? We don’t recognise the US has any moral authority to create such a list and US presidents know full well that Cuba has no links with terrorism.”

The list, first published in 1979, designated Syria, Iraq, South Yemen and Libya as state sponsors of terrorism. Cuba was added to the list three years later in 1982 under the Ronald Reagan presidency.

Why? Because it dared to support revolutionary struggles against colonialism in Latin America and Africa, including against the South African apartheid regime.

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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/c/cubas-not-terrorist-state-so-why-it-still-uss-list

[OrlandoDem2]

1. Because Miami Cubans.

[Sneederbunk]

6. Florida Men.

[liberal N proud]

2. It's past time that Cuba be open to travel.

[Vogon_Glory]

3. Because Joe is probably thinking about the New

Jersey Cuban emigres and their votes. I suspect that he’s written off Florida.

IMO the Miami Cubans have helped turn Florida into a red state. They’ll never vote Democratic and as a group, Democrats owe them no favors. Let them sit and stew the way the old “ China Lobby” had to do after Richard Nixon started dealing with the People’s Republic of China. Chiang Kai Chek will never return to the Chinese mainland, and the emigre Cubans-turned-Republican don’t have a snowball’s chance in Hell of winning a free and fair election in social democrat-minded Cuba.

[GreenWave]

4. Our allies are those we have defeated in war primarily.

Cuba is used as a propaganda tool. Even the "missiles" from the crisis were duds.

[Chainfire]

5. Because we aren't over pouting about the defeat at the Bay of Pigs.

If we hadn't spent the last 50 years trying to beat them into submission, we would probably have good neighbors 90 miles from Key West. We have let the Cubans in North Havana (Miami) call the shots for too long.

Lord help the Florida entertainment industry if Cuba could become a vacation spot for Americans; don't think that that is not a part of it. The administration that "Tears down our wall" will be remembered kindly in history. Perhaps Biden can take that up in his next term.