US re-designates Cuba as State Sponsor of Terrorism over 'malign behaviour'

United States has once again designated Cuba as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, accusing it of granting safe haven to terrorists and also providing support for acts of "international terrorism". move by Trump ministration comes days before President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, who would have liked to start where he and Obama left US-Cuba relations in 2016. Former President Barack Obama h delisted Cuba as a State Sponsor of Terrorism in 2015, seeking rmalisation of ties with Communist State. 

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'To deny resources to Castro regime' 

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on January 11 anunced that Trump ministration is designating Cuba as State Sponsor of Terrorism in order to deny Castro regime resources, which it uses to allegedly oppress people in country, referring to Raul Castro, bror of Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro. latest listing of Cuba will allow United States to penalise persons and countries who eng in tre with Havana. listing will restrict US foreign assistance, ban defence exports and sales, among or things.

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" Trump ministration has been focused from start on denying Castro regime resources it uses to oppress its people at home and countering its malign interference in Venezuela and rest of Western Hemisphere. With this action, we will once again hold Cuba’s government accountable and send a clear mess: Castro regime must end its support for international terrorism and subversion of U.S. justice," Pompeo said in a statement on Monday. 

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Trump ministration accuses Cuban government of providing safe harbour to "murderers, bombmakers, and hijackers", while many Cubans go hungry, homeless, and without basic necessities. Trump ministration h tified US Congress on May 13, 2020, that it h certified Cuba under Section 40A(a) of Arms Export Control Act as “t cooperating fully” with U.S. counterterrorism efforts in 2019.

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