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Colombia's ex-president asks Biden to remove Cuba from terror list [View all]
by Adriaan Alsema February 3, 2021
Colombia’s former President Juan Manuel Santos asked US President Joe Biden to reverse a decision to designate Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism.
Santos made the requested on behalf of The Elders, a group of leaders “working together for peace, justice and human rights” founded by late South African President Nelson Mandela.
According to Colombia’s former president, the decision of the US’ former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to designate the Caribbean nation state as a state terrorism sponsor violated “the principle that no state should face negative repercussions for helping to facilitate peace agreements.”
Pompeo put Cuba on the terrorism sponsor list last year, citing the communist Caribbean state’s refusal to extradite peace negotiators of the Colombian guerrilla group ELN to Bogota.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-ex-president-asks-biden-to-remove-cuba-from-terror-list/
What Trump/Pompeo did to Cuba was filthy and completely unjustified. They have probably rejected his attempts to build a hotel there.
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