16/01/2025
Today, the U.S. removes Cuba from the SSOT, waives Helms Burton Title 3, deletes the list of 'entities' today. A promise made four years ago by the Biden administration. Here is an excerpt of a statement by Cuba's Foreign Ministry, linked in full below.
" ... The decision announced today by the United States corrects, in a very limited way, aspects of a cruel and unjust policy. It is a correction that is taking place now, on the verge of a change of government, when it should have been carried out years ago, as an elementary act of justice, without demanding anything in return and without fabricating pretexts to justify inaction, if it was desired to act correctly. To exclude Cuba from the arbitrary list of States sponsoring terrorism, it should have been enough to recognize the truth, the total absence of reasons for such a designation and the exemplary performance of our country in the fight against terrorism, which has been admitted even by agencies of the United States government.
"It is known that the government of that country could reverse in the future the measures adopted today, as has happened on other occasions and as a sign of the lack of legitimacy, ethics, consistency and reason in its conduct against Cuba.
"In order to do so, American politicians do not usually stop to find honest justifications, as long as the vision described in 1960 by then Assistant Secretary of State Lester Mallory, and the goal he described of subduing Cubans by means of economic siege, misery, hunger and desperation, remain in force. They will not stop to find justifications as long as this government continues to be incapable of recognizing and accepting Cuba's right to self-determination, and as long as it remains willing to assume the political cost of the international isolation caused by its genocidal and illegal policy of economic asphyxiation against Cuba.
"Cuba will continue to confront and denounce this policy of economic warfare, the interference programs and the disinformation and discrediting operations financed each year with tens of millions of dollars from the United States federal budget. It will also remain willing to develop a relationship of respect with that country, based on dialogue and non-interference in each other's internal affairs, despite the differences."
https://cubaminrex.cu/en/united-states-takes-steps-right-direction-blockade-remains-force