As expected, President Obama Tuesday said he is removing Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, paving the way for both countries to restore diplomatic relations.
Mr. Obama notified Congress Tuesday afternoon of his intent to rescind Cuba’s designation, saying Havana has not provided any support for international terrorism in the preceding six months, and has assured the U.S. it will not support terrorism in the future.
An opponent of the policy shift, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, Florida Republican, said Mr. Obama “has demonstrated that his eagerness to capitulate to dictators has no bounds.”
Mr. Diaz-Balart said the Cuban regime ongoing terrorist activities include “extensive espionage activities, shoot-down of unarmed civilian aircraft in international waters, assistance to the Maduro regime in oppressing the opposition and subverting Venezuela’s democratic institutions, harboring members of terrorist organizations such as the FARC and ETA, harboring fugitives from U.S. justice including terrorists Joanne Chesimard and William Guillermo Morales, and weapons smuggling in violation of international sanctions.”
Remember the warning of former Soviet Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) spy, Colonel Stanislav Lunev—the highest-ranking Soviet military officer to defect from Russia to the U.S., who had the chief assignment during the 1980’s of finding locations within the U.S. to hide tactical nuclear “suitcase” bombs—that they used illegal immigrants to walk the nukes across the border. He also exposed that there was a plan underway even back then to re-open a Russian military base in Cuba as a staging headquarters for an American invasion/occupation. This cute little feud between Obama and Putin is merely a puppeteering pageant covering for the ones who pull the strings behind the veil.