Rubio Signals Trump Is Likely to Return Cuba to Terrorism List

Jan. 15, 2025, 9:06 PM UTC

Donald Trump’s nominee to be the top US diplomat signaled that the president-elect is likely to reverse President Joe Biden’s decision Tuesday to remove Cuba from a list of state sponsors of terrorism after he takes office next week.

Cuba is “without a question” a sponsor of terrorism, Senator Marco Rubio, Trump’s nominee for secretary of state, said in response to questions at his confirmation hearing in Washington on Wednesday. Trump had given Cuba the designation before the end of his first term in 2021, but Biden reversed it on Tuesday.

Biden’s move was part of a series of ...

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