The United States is grasping at straws in justifying the continued economic embargo on Cuba by claiming the country is in a category with Iran, Sudan, and Syria as officially recognized state sponsors of terrorism.
Washington, of course, refuses to provide any evidence of this, even as the charge of Cuba’s “support for acts of international terrorism” is increasingly questioned.
Responding to press reports that Obama’s new Secretary of State John Kerry was considering lifting the harsh economic sanctions on Cuba, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland such rumors are false.
“This department has no current plans to remove Cuba from the state sponsor of terrorism list,” said Nuland. “We review this every year, and at the current moment we — when the last review was done in 2012 –didn’t see cause to remove them.”
Cuba has elicited particular ire from Washington ever since the Eisenhower administration, a byproduct of Cold War justifications for US grand strategy, which seeks to maintain hegemony and crush economic, geo-political, or ideological defiance.
The claim of being a state sponsor of terrorism is a mere pretext, a blanket accusation Washington applies to any government it doesn’t like (and one that ignores America’s own history of supporting and carrying out international terrorism). A State Department report last year found that Cuba’s ties to so-called terrorist groups are tenuous at best.
Cuba has repeatedly reached out Washington, as President Raul Castro did last summer, insisting that Cuba “is willing to mend fences with bitter Cold War foe the United States and sit down to discuss anything, as long as it is a conversation between equals,” The Associated Press reported.
“Any day they want, the table is set. This has already been said through diplomatic channels,” Castro said. “If they want to talk, we will talk.”
But the Obama administration has refused, intent on continuing to isolate Cuba and maintain the embargo.
That's funny…, who is supporting the terrorists in Syria…,,, it must be Cubans. Who is terrorizing the world with its militarism regime…, it must be the Cubans.
Maybe they are waiting for old Fidel to kick the bucket. There is always the horrible danger he could come back to power and become the next Hitler of the Week.
US and Israel are only sponsors of terrorism on this planet, their Evil ideology – Internacional Zionism ……full stop!peter czech
Nuland is the new Madeleine Albright in training – the death of others is a price worth paying.
Lifting the Cuban embargo was the very one thing that I had hoped of Obomber.
Really? Why? He clearly said he would not when he ran for President in 2008.
This from the country that TRAINED and FUNDED Osama Bin Ladin!
This from a country that uses civilians to bomb children with drones
One could write a plethora of instances where the United States has committed such acts that it accuses Cuba of but we actually KNOW that the United States has done so!
In fact they are doing as I type this!
This is from the country that trained, funded and armed Cuban exiles to do numerous terror attacks against Cuba. Including a bomb that blew a Venezuelan civilian plane out of the air killing something like 80 people. The person Venezuela says was responsible for that is living in the US, under the protection of the US government which won't extradite him. So, not only does the US do this around the world, but we have very specifically waged state-sponsored terror against Cuba for over 50 years now.
Really,? really,?when was the last time a cuban was caught commiting a act of terroism against the US or anywhere around the world or their government supporting a terroist group?
There's those doctors they send out around to other countries to cure people. Obviously that's an act of terror.
Right now in the world, if you see a doctor in a clinic, you know Cuba has been there.
If you see car bombs going off and armed men fighting, then you know the USA has been there.
hog wash.
One can only laugh at such a charge coming from the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, which is guilty of the murders of millions of people around the world.
In fact, it's almost as laughable as bully Amerika lecturing other countries about their human rights violations.
You have to either be completely brainwashed or an utter moron to believe anything the US government or its lapdog MSM says.
I don't think I've ever seen a photo of Nuland in which she didn't look deranged. Most of the war criminals that make up this American regime look like asylum escapees, greasy con artists or desperate criminals.
The terrorism plaguing us now overwhelmingly comes from Israel and America. Them blaming Cuba is really about as stupid as it gets from these psychos.
Shorten the hair and the photo could be titled 'John Brennan'. Same psycho features and expression. A pearl necklace might help him too.
To the US government, any country that doesn't take orders from Washington, is a state sponsor of terrorism.
The only criterion is "does this country obey?" Yes=ally. No=state sponsor of terror.
Well there's our terrorists – called 'freedom fighters' and 'peoples' militias' and then there's insurgents and real terrorists. And Cuba belongs to the second group.
At least until the let Mr. Bacardi have his beach back and allow US investors to recoup their Castro losses.
With democracies like this (US) who needs fascism ?
It must be all those doctors they train.
Cuba has been a major tourist destination for the REST of the world for decades. It appears only America has sanctions. As an example, look at the hotels and resorts listed on this tourism/travel page: http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotels-g147270-zff8-Cu…
If Cuba can be said to sponsor terrorism, the U.S. is the prime motivator.