Dozens of Mexican activists demonstrated this Saturday outside the facilities of the United States Embassy in Mexico City to protest Cuba’s return in the list of terrorism promoting countries after arriving at the White House of President Donald Trump.
“We organized this rally to express our rejection of this revocation that President Biden had to get Cuba out of the list of countries that supposedly sponsor terrorism,” said Ana Rodrigo Espinoza, a member of the Mexican Movement of Solidarity with Cuba.
The activist said that who has suffered terrorism for more than 65 years has been the Cuban people, and lamented the threats and rejection suffered by other peoples of America and Palestine, which means “an imperialist expansion” of the United States.
The march occurs after the Republican, in one of his first decrees as president, returned to Cuba to the list of countries that promote terrorism just six days after his predecessor, the Democrat Joe Biden, excluded her.
The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said he had “zero doubts” that Havana should be included in that registry.
The dissatisfied tanks in which they asked to defend Cuba and China from the “blood imperialism” of the United States, as well as break the economic blockade that exists on the island.
For his part, Sherezada, of the Solidarity Movement with Cuba, said that the protest seeks to show the disagreement against the “bloodthirsty” block that exists against the Cuban people by the US government.
“It is not only seen in the imposition of Cuba on that list, it is not reduced only to that list of terrorism sponsor, but after the Cuban Revolution, John F. Kennedy put the blockade against Cuba, this has a lot of time “, said.
The protesters also launched slogans and pointed out that in the face of more hardening of the measures against the island “greater will be our solidarity” with Cuba.
“Cuba is not alone, he has never been and will never be! Below the block! Outside the Cuba list, out of the list, Cuba is not a terrorist to take it out of the list! ”The activists shouted.
Republican Trump revoked, in the early hours of his presidency, the order of January 14 with which Biden (2021-2025) took Cuba out of the American list of terrorism promoting countries.
Biden made that decision to promote the release of several Cuban prisoners as part of a process that had the mediation of the Vatican.
Trump, at the end of his first term, in January 2021, included Cuba on that list after his predecessor, Barack Obama, would have excluded it after more than three decades in her.
The designation implies the prohibition of weapons sale to that country, greater control of its exports, restrictions in foreign aid, greater requirements for visa and de facto freezing of much of the international financial transactions of Cuba.
