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INDEPENDENT experts from the United Nations on Tuesday demanded that the United States remove Cuba from its unilateral list of countries sponsoring terrorism.
The group of experts said that Cuba’s prefsence on the list causes economic and financial restrictions that hinder the Cuban government's ability to provide assistance to its people.
The group said: “The designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism (SSOT) has added to the challenges already faced by the people of Cuba over the past three to four years, along with serious disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, natural disasters, and economic and financial developments that have affected global supply chains and commodity and energy prices.”
On January 29, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to US national security and tightened the blockade against the island nation MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS reports
While ordinary Americans were suffering in the wake of 2005’s deadly hurricane, the Bush administration was more concerned with maintaining its anti-Cuba stance than with saving lives, writes MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS
Cuba Solidarity Campaign secretary BERNARD REGAN says the inhuman blockade of Cuba not only continues, but the Donald Trump administration is ratcheting up aggression against both Havana and Latin America more widely
