The United States of America has again designated Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism. The U.S. had removed Cuba from its state sponsors of terrorism list in May 2015.
- Then President Barack Obama had reached an agreement to restore relations with Cuba months earlier, including a plan to boost travel and trade between the two countries.
- The US State Department currently lists only three countries as state sponsors of terrorism: Syria, Iran and North Korea. In 2020. Sudan was removed from the list.
- According to the Foreign Secretary, Mike Pompeo, the US administration is intent on “denying the Castro regime the resources it uses to oppress its people at home, and countering its malign interference in Venezuela and the rest of the Western Hemisphere.
