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U.S. includes Cuba on infamous list of countries that do not cooperate in fighting terrorism

The State Department notified the U.S. Congress on May 12 that Iran, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela and Cuba were certified under Section 40A (a) of the Arms Export Control Act as "not fully cooperating" with U.S. anti-terrorism efforts in 2019.

The State Department's official website published the notification, clarifying that Cuba has now been reinstated on the infamous list from which it was removed in 2015, following the restoration of diplomatic relations between the two nations under the leadership of Presidents Barack Obama and Raúl Castro.

The US increased hostility against Cuba by a new accusation

Havana, May 14 (Prensa Latina) The US has increased hostility against Cuba by including it once again to the list of nations that 'do not cooperate with anti-terrorism efforts,' while remaining silent on the attack against Havana's Embassy in Washington.

Cuban authorities rejected yesterday such a decision by the US State Department and denounced that Trump's government hides its history of State terrorism against the island.

My condemnation against the US State Department's designation of Cuba as a state that does not cooperate in counterterrorism efforts.

By Brian Armas
On Wednesday, May 13th, 2020, Cuba was added to the US Department of State’s list of states that do not cooperate fully with counterterrorism efforts. Apart from this designation being based on falsehoods, slanders, and a particular political agenda carried out by the Trump administration, it comes after a mere two weeks since the Cuban Embassy in Washington, DC was violently attacked by a gunman with diplomats working inside.

The criminal, inhuman economic blockade of Cuba!

By Kennedy Earle Clarke
“No real progressive minded Leader of any country, who truly and irrevocably believes in liberating his people through education from kindergarten to university would implement the degrading, divisive exploitative, oppressive economic system called capitalism to do so, for it will be totally impossible to accomplish this feat, using that economic system of development” Kennedy Earle Clarke.

Caricom Foreign Ministers demand end to US blockade of Cuba

Georgetown, May 12. The foreign ministers of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries reiterated their condemnation to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba and called for its lifting.

The denunciation of the unilateral measure with which the United States has been lobbying Cuba to abdicate its revolutionary process and its socialist development system took place within the context of the 23rd Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (Cofcor) of the Caricom.

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