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The “Terrorist List” and Harassment against Cuba.

CUBA, October 6, 2010.- Under the title “Terrorist List Guarantees Continuity of Harassment against Cuba”, Granma newspaper published on Monday a long article that denounces that anti-Cuban action, countersigned by the current US administration.

After recalling that in February, 1959, the United States disapproved the granting of the first credit that the Revolutionary Government requested, it denounces that the tactic of subjugating Cuba by attacking its external finances was established early, as the focal point of the economic war against the island.

At the beginning of the 1980’s, the United States needed to accuse the island of being other than "a satellite" of the USSR. For this reason, -recalls the article- in 1982 Ronald Reagan included Cuba on the list of countries sponsoring terrorism.

No other president after him has been brave enough to erase the island from that fallacious document, denounces Granma, adding that it wasn’t until 1996 that it began to take advantage of Cuba’s presence on that list to damage its finances.

From that year on, the US government successively approved three “antiterrorist” laws that allowed US citizens, supposedly victims of terrorism, to claim in their courts from the states "responsible" for such acts.

From 1996 to 2008, as a result of these “compensations,” Cuba was divested of 170,233,000 dollars belonging to its funds frozen since 1963 in US banks. One of the "compensations" was of 1.7 million dollars, given in January, 2005, to the head of the Brothers to the Rescue organization, devoted to terrorism against the island.

Once the funds were exhausted, they moved on to financial harassment. After the events of September 11, 2001, the United States issued the Patriot Act. The financial persecution went beyond all limits existing up until then.

The current US administration of Barack Obama decided to include Cuba once again on the famous list.

On September 2, he signed sanctions against Cuba for another year, under the protection of the Trading with the Enemy Act, and he himself expressed that this is “in the national interest of the United States." (Cubaminrex- Cuban News Agency)

 

 

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