The former president of Colombia Ernesto Samper announced the letter signed by 35 former leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, Africa and Asia; among whom are Sam Nujoma, Founding Father of Namibia, and Hifikepunye Pohamba, second president of this sister nation.
In the letter, the former leaders asked President Joe Biden to remove Cuba from that list before the end of his term and asked him to heed this humanitarian call to alleviate the situation of millions of innocent people. “No country should compromise for political purposes the seriousness of the fight against the scourge of terrorism,” the document concludes.
Former President Samper also announced that “it makes no sense that a country like Cuba that has worked for peace in the world and that has helped us Colombians sign the Peace Agreement with the extinct FARC, be included in the list of countries that support terrorism and that as a consequence subject them to immoral, illegal and inhumane sanctions.”
The letter says verbatim that “maintaining the inclusion of Cuba on the list of States sponsoring terrorism constitutes a coercive measure that is difficult to justify in the 21st century when equality between States must be a reality. This unjust decision also affects the universal charter of human rights, an ethical pillar of contemporary international relations, by impacting the most vulnerable sectors of the Cuban population hit recently by the disastrous effects of the pandemic, exacerbated by the lack of medicines. and equipment to respond to the emergency.”
The letter is attached in pdf.
