Cuba announced the release of 553 prisoners in response to President Biden's decision to remove Cuba from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism. The move, likely to be reversed by President-elect Trump, is seen as a positive step by Cuba but the country remains under US sanctions imposed since 1962.
Havana, Cuba – Cuba said Tuesday it would release 553 prisoners in response to an announcement from Washington that it will remove the communist country from its list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Cuba welcomed the move as a step in the “right direction,” but lamented it was still under US sanctions in place since 1962. Driven by blackouts and soaring food prices, thousands of Cubans took to the streets nationwide in July 2021, shouting: “We are hungry” and “Freedom!” in what was the biggest challenge to the government in years.
But Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel has described US sanctions as “genocidal” and said his country was prepared for “more difficult circumstances” after Trump’s election. The incoming president’s allies immediately criticized Biden over Tuesday’s announcement, with Ted Cruz — a Cuban-American member of the US Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee — calling it a “rank appeasement of the Cuban regime.”
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