In his Twitter profile, the highest representative of the island’s diplomacy stated that, according to the Watson Institute, at least 4.5 million people died as a result of the wars waged by that northern power in its crusade against terrorism since 2001.

Washington once again included Cuba on its unilateral list of countries that allegedly do not cooperate with anti-terrorist efforts, despite the opinion of prestigious intellectuals and political personalities who from that country consider the label as slander.

In an executive order disclosed in the US Federal Register, which will be transmitted to the Congress of that nation, Cuba appears along with Iran, North Korea, Venezuela and Syria for allegedly not complying with the standards dictated by Washington on the subject.

Recently, Democratic representative Jim McGovern, and Patrick Leahy, former president pro tempore of the Senate, advocated in a statement published in The Boston Globe newspaper to banish any attempt to link Cuba to that scourge.

Other personalities, such as academic William LeoGrande, supported such a claim and regretted that the administration of Democrat Joe Biden has promised for two years to reconsider the designation without ultimately modifying anything.

In addition to the financial damage, the designation as a State sponsor of terrorism adds insults to the wound suffered by the island for decades, estimated the intellectual, who recalled that since 1959 this Caribbean nation has been the victim of hundreds of attacks of this type perpetrated since then.

In 2015, President Barack Obama (2009-2017) removed Cuba from that list, however, Republican Donald Trump (2017-2021) included it again during the last days of his term. After more than half of the Biden government, the island remains in that category.

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