Pompeo Weighs Plan to Place Cuba on U.S. Terrorism Sponsor List
The move would complicate any effort by the incoming Biden administration to resume President Barack Obama’s thaw in relations with Havana.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has three weeks left until the inauguration to decide whether Cuba should be designated as a state sponsor of terrorism.Credit.Oliver Contreras for The New York Times
Dec. 29, 2020
State Department officials have drawn up a proposal to designate Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, a final-hour foreign policy move that would complicate plans by the incoming Biden administration to relax increased American pressure on Havana.
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