State Department drops Cuba entirely from annual detail of terrorist activity
JULY 19, 2017 2:09 PM
BY TERESA WELSH
twelsh@mcclatchy.com
After spending 33 years designated a state sponsor of terrorism by the U.S. government, Cuba no longer has any activity that even merits its own report in the State Department’s annual review of terrorist threats around the world.
“It was assessed that there was not sufficient information there to provide a report this year on Cuba,” Justin Siberell, the State Department’s acting coordinator for counterterrorism, told reporters Wednesday.
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Cuba was originally put on the list in 1982 by the Reagan administration as a way to punish Cuba for support of guerrilla movements in El Salvador and Nicaragua and its close ties to the Soviet Union, but the Obama administration agreed to review Havana’s state sponsor of terrorism designation after the two countries opened relations in December 2014. The review found that Cuba met the criteria to merit removal, which included finding no evidence that the country was supporting international terrorism and securing promises it would not do so in the future.
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