State Secretary Mike Pompeo
Mike PompeoPompeo calls for release of Chinese journalist jailed for coronavirus coverage Trump administration approves sale of 1,000 bombs to Saudis Trump administration strengthens US investment restriction order in Chinese companies MORE weighs whether it places Cuba on the US list of state sponsors of terrorism, New York Times reported Tuesday.
Two U.S. officials who spoke to the Times said members of the State Department had drafted a proposal to nominate Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, which Pompeo should sign with only three weeks to go before the president-elect Joe Biden
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The move, which the Times noted will serve as a “thank you” to Cuban Americans and other anti-communist Latinos in Florida who helped President Trump
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While Biden could move quickly to remove Cuba from the list upon taking office, the Times reported that this could require a formal process of formal review in a few months.
When contacted by The Hill, a State Department spokesman said the agency was not “discussing deliberations or possible deliberations” on the designation of terrorism.
State Department defines a state sponsor of terrorism as a country that has “has repeatedly offered support for acts of international terrorism. ”
The countries to which this designation is assigned are subject to four main categories of sanctions: restrictions on US external assistance, a ban on defense exports and sales, controls on exports of dual-use items, and other financial restrictions.
Currently, there are only three countries on the terrorism list: Iran, North Korea and Syria.
The State Department removed Cuba from the list in 2015 under the Obama administration, normalizing relations between Washington and Havana for the first time since Cuba’s 1959 communist revolution.
In 2016, Obama became the first American president to visit the Calvin Coolidge island nation.
Cuba was first added to the list of terrorists under the Reagan administration in 1982, after the country’s support for left-wing insurgency groups throughout Latin America.
However, US-Cuba relations have become increasingly strained under the Trump administration with the State Department. notifying Congress in May that Cuba was among the countries identified as “Not fully cooperating” with US counterterrorism efforts in 2019, marking the first year Cuba has been certified as not fully cooperating since 2015.
Throughout the 2020 election cycle, the Trump campaign mobilized fears among Cubans and others in Florida that Biden would not resist Latin American communism, with Trump calling Obama’s agreement with Cuba “terrible and wrong.”
Democrats on Tuesday condemned a potential designation of the sponsor of state terrorism for Cuba, with Rep. Gregory Meeks
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“They’re trying to handcuff the incoming administration,” Meeks added.