According to Prensa Latina, in the Council session, chaired by Mayor Brandon Johnson, 50 council members voted unanimously in favor of the resolution, which seeks to have the United States lift coercive measures against Cuba and return to the path of understanding.

The request calls for “the full restoration of travel and trade between both countries, putting an end to the injustice and harm that the United States imposes on all sectors of Cuban society.”

The text argued that, in 2017, the administration of then-President Donald Trump reversed the progress made during the final term of Barack Obama’s administration, which in 2015 removed Cuba from the aforementioned list.

However, the first Trump administration (2017-2021) promoted the State Department’s reinstatement of Cuba to that list “without providing evidence to support allegations of acts of international terrorism,” the resolution emphasized.

In 2021, at least 117 members of the United States Congress called for Cuba’s removal from the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism, noting in a letter that “a policy of engagement with Cuba serves the interests of the United States and those of the Cuban people,” it remembered.

The resolution will be sent to Senators Richard Durbin and Tammy Duckworth, the Illinois congressional delegation, and the President of the United States.

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