Marco Rubio to visit El Salvador
By: Roberto Morejón
Different U.S. administrations are obsessed with their unilateral lists, acting as if they are international judges. They add Cuba to these lists.
The Donald Trump administration, with the stubborn leadership of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, included Cuba on another one of those lists: countries that do not cooperate in the fight against terrorism.
Rubio's department does not seem to pay enough attention to critical issues and yet finds time to plot new abuses against Havana.
This allows the Trump administration to reverse the measure adopted by the Biden administration by removing the Caribbean archipelago from the aforementioned list.
This new step serves as a lever for further sanctions against Cuba, tightening the blockade while claiming that coercion does not exist since the Cuban regime can interact with the entire world.
To confirm the tightening of the disastrous ring, recall that the United States returned Cuba to its list of state sponsors of terrorism, from which Biden removed it before leaving the White House.
This move will severely impact the Antillean economy, as international banking credits and procedures will be unavailable.
However, Rubio and the anti-Cuban faction surrounding Trump disregard statements such as those of a group of UN experts. In February, the experts said that returning the Caribbean nation to the list of countries that sponsor terrorism is illegal and a setback for the human rights of Cubans.
Although the State Department cites other reasons to justify the most recent anti-Cuban ruling, Rubio has always demanded that Cuba remain on blacklists.
In 2022, when he was a senator, he criticized the Biden administration for being inclined to remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Now, in control of the State Department, Rubio is restructuring it but not depriving Cuba's regime change programs of funds.
Through its lists and other tools, the Trump administration, particularly Rubio, is tightening the belt on Cuba, supporting recent assertions by Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío.
"Cuba does not live in peace. Cuba lives in permanent aggression."
