President Joe Biden has notified Congress of his intent to lift the U.S. designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, the White House announced, as part of a deal facilitated by the Catholic Church to free political prisoners on the island.
In the last days before U.S. President Joe Biden departed the White House, he was somehow persuaded to take a second look at the U.S.-Cuba relationship. All I can say to President Biden is: that was one long Cuba policy review given that it was first initiated in February 2021.
President Joe Biden's record of handling the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is decidedly mixed.
In a surprise move, President Joe Biden announced yesterday that his administration will remove Cuba from the State Sponsors of Terrorism List. In addition, Biden suspended Title III, a controversial law that had stifled foreign investment to Cuba,
Within hours after taking office on Jan. 20, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an omnibus executive order revoking 78 executive actions by
Florida Democrats torched outgoing President Joe Biden after he decided to remove Cuba's state-sponsor-of-terrorism designation.
Now Joe (or the flunkies actually running things) has removed Cuba’s designation as a state sponsor of terror. Yes, the island nation released 550 political prisoners after Biden paid this danegeld. But Cuba is still a Communist dictatorship that rules through fear and brutality against its own population and provides safe haven for terrorist killers from groups like Colombia’s ELN,
The move is likely to be reversed by the incoming Trump administration, as it was Trump who first put Cuba on the terrorism blacklist in his first term
On his first day in office, President Donald Trump reinstated Cuba 's designation as a state sponsor of terrorism, reversing an executive order issued by former President Joe Biden just last week. Biden had announced plans to lift the designation as part of a Vatican-brokered deal to free political prisoners in Cuba.
Outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday removed Cuba from a blacklist of nations that sponsor terrorism and rolled back a raft of sanctions implemented by Donald Trump during his first presidency that have contributed to the island's worst economic ...
The Biden administration said it would remove Cuba from its terrorism blacklist, while Cuba said separately it would release upward of 500 prisoners from its jails.
Outgoing President Biden announces removal of Cuba's designation as state sponsor of terrorism, in exchange for release of 553 political prisoners from Cuban prison.