Biden Administration To Remove Cuba From State Sponsor of Terrorism List

Source: https://news.antiwar.com/2025/01/14/biden-administration-to-remove-cuba-from-state-sponsor-of-terrorism-list/
Published: Jan 15, 2025
Author: Horse
Post Date: 2025-01-15 11:47:50 by Horse
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by Dave DeCamp

The Biden administration announced Tuesday that it will remove Cuba from the “state sponsor of terrorism” list, a move that will likely be reversed by the incoming Trump administration.

According to US officials, the move is the result of a deal brokered by the Catholic Church that will see Cuba release political prisoners. Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel announced Tuesday that Cuba will free 553 people and said that he informed Pope Francis.

Removing Cuba from the list will ease sanctions slightly, though the country remains under a decades-old trade embargo. “This decision puts an end to specific coercive measures which, together with many others, seriously damage the Cuban economy and have a severe impact on the population,” the Cuban Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

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#1: ghostrider    To: Horse (#0)

No sense in it if it doesn't allow open access to a good cigar. Last time I had one was in '97 had to take a slow boat ride to Palma Spain, but hey I did get to eat pizza in Italy on that deployment.

ghostrider posted on 2025-01-15 13:12:23   Reply   Private Reply

#2: watchman    To: ghostrider (#1)

access to a good cigar.

If I had a half-acre to spare and the right climate, I'd grow some tobacco.

watchman posted on 2025-01-15 20:03:46   Reply   Private Reply

#3: ghostrider    To: watchman (#2)

There are tabacco plants that are grown as ornamental flowers, seeds are available for many of the different tabacco plants the soil you can make just a matter of where to set it up by no means a commercial venture. The feds regulate how many seeds the commercial growers are allowed to plant but like whiskey one can do it at home for self consumption.

ghostrider posted on 2025-01-15 21:47:02   Reply   Private Reply