Within hours after his Jan. 20 inauguration, President Donald Trump revoked the “Certificate of Rescission of Cuba’s Designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism” issued by former President Joseph Biden just six days earlier.
Cuba had been placed on this list by Trump just days before the end of his first term as president in 2021. Biden kept this attack on Cuban people on the books, which tightens the U.S. rulers’ 60-year-plus economic war against them, until the end of his presidency.
Trump’s action was not surprising, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel responded. “Its objective is to keep accelerating the cruel economic war against Cuba with a goal of domination.
“The result of the extreme siege measures imposed by Trump has been to provoke shortages among our people,” he said. “The legitimate and noble cause of our people will prevail, and once again prevail.”
In December half a million Cubans marched by the U.S. Embassy in Havana protesting Washington’s embargo and demanding the U.S. government remove Cuba from the “terrorism” list.
The U.S. capitalist rulers are determined to destroy Cuba’s socialist revolution ushered in by a powerful uprising of millions that overthrew the U.S.-backed Fulgencio Batista dictatorship. Led by Fidel Castro, Cuban working people took control of their destiny. Far from organizing terrorism, Cuba offers the hand of solidarity to toilers everywhere. It is an example to be emulated, including in the U.S.