SLP, Mexico.- This Monday, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, revoked the Biden administration’s order to remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.
According to confirmed An official note from the White House, the order is part of a series of initial rescissions of executive decrees and measures considered “harmful” by the new administration.
#BREAKING | US President Donald Trump revokes Cuba’s removal from the list of states that promote terrorism. pic.twitter.com/Nj7xO21i7Z
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After taking office, Trump officially revoked the Memorandum Presidential of January 14, 2025 (Certification of the rescission of the designation of Cuba as a State sponsor of terrorism).
The executive order signed this Monday, which rescinds 78 decrees, will be “the first of many steps that the Federal Government of the United States will take to repair our institutions and our economy,” the White House statement wrote.
The official text points out that “the previous administration has embedded deeply unpopular, inflationary, illegal and radical practices in all agencies and offices of the Federal Government.”
“The injection of ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ (DEI) into our institutions has corrupted them by replacing hard work, merit and equality with a divisive and dangerous preferential hierarchy. Orders to open borders have endangered the American people and have dissolved federal, state and local resources that should be used to benefit the American people. “Climate extremism has triggered inflation and burdened businesses with regulations,” he continued.
“To initiate the policies that will make our Nation united, just, secure and prosperous again, it is the policy of the United States to restore common sense to the Federal Government and unleash the potential of the American citizen,” the statement said.
As indicated in the document, the National Security Advisor will immediately begin a complete and exhaustive review of all National Security Memoranda issued from January 20, 2021 to January 20, 2025, to verify whether they harm national security, resistance internal affairs and American values.
Leave and enter the list
Last week, President Joe Biden’s administration removed Cuba from the list that designates it as a State sponsor of terrorism, after a promise from the Havana regime to the Catholic Church to release political prisoners.
The US Government affirmed that the Cuban regime has not provided any support to international terrorism during the previous six months and has given guarantees that it will not support acts of international terrorism in the future, thereby justifying the departure of the regime of the list of state sponsors of terrorism.
That same day, suspended Title III of the Cuban Democratic Freedom and Solidarity Act that went into effect in 1996, and which was created to allow Americans, including Cubans nationalized, could sue before US courts the companies that are supposedly benefiting from properties in Cuba that were theirs 60 years ago, before the Revolution.
After the announcements, the Cuban Government advertisement the release of 553 prisoners “punished for various crimes.”
Without mentioning whether they were political prisoners, an official note from the Cuban Foreign Ministry stated that the decision was made “based on a careful analysis based on the different modalities contemplated by the law, and as part of the just and humanitarian nature.” of the penal and penitentiary systems of Cuba.”
