Pretoria, 07 February 2025 - Leading intellectuals have expressed serious concerns about Cuba's re-inclusion on the unilateral list of state sponsors of terrorism. Argentine sociologist Atilio Borón, for example, said that the decision is an unspeakable calamity.
The essayist and political scientist, an expert on Latin American and Caribbean issues, stressed that if there is one country that has been a victim of terrorism, it has been Cuba.
For Borón, terrorism means subjecting a nation to a complete blockade for more than 60 years, and so does the country whose government in 1945 dropped the only two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ‘the greatest terrorist attack in the history of humanity’.
On the other hand, he recalled, Cuba has been the host and guarantor of all the negotiations that have taken place to advance the peace process in Colombia.
The inclusion on the list, he added, does not make sense and does affect the daily lives of the island's inhabitants.
According to the professor, the Cuban government has reacted with dignity to the new measures and pressures from the current administration of Donald Trump and his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.
(Prensa Latina - Cuban Embassy in South Africa)