MIAMI, United States. – The Assembly of the Cuban Resistance (ARC) and several dissidents rejected this Friday any possibility that the Havana regime be removed from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism prepared by the United States Department of State, according to an EFE report.
During a press conference held in Miami, the coordinator of the ARC, Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat, said that “it would be unfortunate” if the administration of President Joe Biden made the decision to remove Cuba from that list.
“The Government of Cuba supports Russia and the Daniel Ortega regime in Nicaragua,” Gutiérrez-Boronat said.
Likewise, the Cuban exile assured that this measure would mean financing the repression against the people of the Island and guaranteeing the perpetuation of the current leaders in the Government.
The ARC has described the Government of Havana as a “murderous regime that has practiced terror against the Cuban people since its inception” and that “has supported international terrorists.”
In the same press conference, Kevin Cabrera, commissioner of Miami-Dade County, pointed out that the Cuban regime sponsors terrorism and that, for that reason, it should remain on the aforementioned list.
For her part, Sylvia Iriondo, president of the organization Mothers and Women Against Repression (MAR), added that after 64 years “the criminal nature of the Cuban regime continues.”
“It is inconceivable that Joe Biden is contemplating removing the Cuban regime from the list of terrorist countries,” Iriondo said.
The Cuban regime was excluded from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism after the thaw started between Barack Obama and Raúl Castro. Later, in 2020, it was included again by the administration of then-President Donald Trump.
Also this friday, opposition Cubans, inside and outside Cuba, published a letter addressed to Biden in rejection of the appeasement policies towards the island’s dictatorship and to alert about the threat that the regime represents to the lives of millions of Cubans and the national security of the United States and the rest of the continent.
“Dialogue and collaboration with the Cuban State should only develop and grow once the Cuban citizens can decide their own destiny,” he stresses. the missive.
The document, also addressed to the rulers of democratic countries, recalled that the Cuban dictatorship has strengthened its strategic relations with regimes such as the Russian and Chinese, becoming Putin’s main transatlantic ally during the invasion of Ukraine.
