“A group of 35 former presidents, including Bolivia’s Evo Morales, Ecuador’s Rafael Correa, Brazil’s Dilma Roussef, Colombia’s Ernesto Samper and Spain’s José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, sent a letter to [President] Biden demanding that he remove Cuba from the list of countries that sponsor terrorism.”[1]
This group said that thie designation is “a coercive measure that is difficult to justify in the 21st century.“ After “decades of unilateral sanctions and coercive measures, Cuba’s economy is one of the most severely affected in the world and is now, socially, at a point of no return.” They reiterate “Havana’s narrative, which blames the problems facing the island on the sanctions, while the regime’s military conglomerate, GAESA, builds luxury hotels and Cuba imports hundreds of millions of dollars annually in all kinds of products, especially food, from” the U.S. The letter, however, fails to mention that the current historic exodus is subsequent to the economic package of the Task Order and the wave of [Cuban] repression after the social outbreak of 11J.”
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[1] Evo, Correa, Zapatero, Roussef: 35 former presidents ask Biden to exclude the Cuban regime as a sponsor of terrorism, Diario de Cuba (Sept. 14, 2024).