The administration of Donald Trump announced Monday, January 11, nine days before the end of his mandate, that it had re-registered Cuba in the American blacklist of "
States supporting terrorism
", from which the island had been withdrawn in 2015 by Barack Obama.
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With this measure, we will again hold the government of Cuba responsible and send a clear message: the Castro regime must end its support for international terrorism and the subversion of American justice
," said the head of the government. US diplomacy Mike Pompeo in a statement.