state sponsors of terrorism

Latin America: Terrorism Issues

March 20, 2011

The U.S. Congressional Research Service released a report last month on terrorism issues in Latin America, which includes a section on Cuba discussing the island’s inclusion on the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism and lack of cooperating fully with U.S. antiterrorism efforts.

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State sponsor of terrorism

August 5, 2010

The U.S. State Department’s Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism released today its annual Country Reports on Terrorism for 2009. Here is the report’s entry for Cuba (pgs. 191 and 192): The Cuban government and official media publicly condemned acts of terrorism by al-Qa‘ida and affiliates, while at the same time remaining critical of the [...]

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U.S. president is blacklisted

January 9, 2010

The government of Raúl Castro has blacklisted U.S. President Barack Obama. It’s no tasteless joke. Havana considers that after a year in the White House the first African-American president of the United States has demonstrated to be an “enemy” of the revolution just as his predecessors and that rapprochement with Washington has ended. Yesterday, the Cuban government [...]

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Miscellanea

January 6, 2010

Cuba’s government summoned the top U.S. diplomat on the island to protest the country’s inclusion on a list of 14 countries facing additional security measures after a failed bombing of a flight to Detroit on Christmas. Madrid condemns Cuba’s decision to bar a Spain’s EU diplomat’s entrance to the island. Ex-Sandinista commander accuses Nicaraguan President Daniel [...]

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