¡Cuba off US terrorist list!, Brazilian writer Leonardo Boff demands

Havana, Sep 16 (Prensa Latina) Brazilian writer Leonardo Boff today voiced support for the open letter French-Spanish journalist Ignacio Ramonet addressed to the President of the United States, Joe Biden, demanding that Cuba be excluded from the list of States sponsoring terrorism.

September 16, 2024
16:38

Boff, theologian and philosopher, founder of Liberation Theology, is thus joining the more than four thousand signatures that support this noble and just initiative.

The letter was also signed by Belgian historian and economist Eric Toussaint, spokesman for the International Network of the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM); by the former member of the European Parliament and Secretary of International Relations of the Communist Party of Spain, Manu Pineda, and by the Dominican researcher Yuderkys Espinosa-Miñoso, director of the Caribbean Institute of Decolonial Thought and Research.

Also supporting the initiative is Puerto Rican professor and sociologist Agustín Lao-Montes; and Argentine intellectuals Mario Goloboff and Pablo Vommaro, academic secretary of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO).

The campaign originally came from Casa de las Américas, in Havana, as part of a battle to exclude the Caribbean nation from the aforementioned list, which has also gained backing from Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, Nobel Prize for Literature, and Argentine Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Nobel Peace Prize winner.

Ramonet asked the US president to repair the “profound injustice committed on January 12, 2021 by his predecessor, Donald Trump, when, a few weeks after leaving the White House, he decided – without real legal basis – to re-register Cuba on the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism.”

“For 65 years, despite the tensions between the United States and Cuba, not a single case of violent action occurring on U.S. soil, sponsored, directly or indirectly, by Havana, can be cited. Not a single case!,” Ramonet emphasized.

He also recalled that “the most atrocious consequences arise from the risk associated with any type of humanitarian aid, business, investment and trade that involves Cuba and, by extension, its citizens”

All of this added to “the terrible consequences of the illegal economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba that the Government of your country has maintained for more than 60 years.”

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