President Donald Trump, in the first hours of his administration, revoked former President Joe Biden’s decision to remove Cuba from the United States’ list of state sponsors of terrorism (SST).
Cuba’s redesignation as a state sponsor of terrorism is part of a list of 78 executive actions signed by Biden that were revoked by President Trump on Monday evening.
In the final week of his administration, former President Biden had Cuba removed from the SST list, a designation the communist-ruled nation first receiving in 1982 and held until 2015. At that time, former President Barack Obama removed Cuba from the list as part of a broad list of concessions granted to the communist Castro regime commonly known as the “Cuban thaw.”
President Trump reintroduced Cuba to the SST list in January 2021 due to the Castro regime’s lengthy track record of support and deep ties with…
