“The fair thing would be to lift the blockade and compensate Cuba for the enormous damage that the bandits who rule the world have done and continue to do,” he said in statements to Prensa Latina about the recent US measure.

He commented that “we have reached such a degree of acceptance of an unjust international regime that it seems positive to us that Cuba be removed from the list of countries that promote terror,” on which it was included without any basis.

“Let us congratulate ourselves that at least the imperialists accepted the obvious; that the slander against the island was just that, pure slander,” the veteran social activist, academic, political analyst and journalist pointed out.

The State Sponsors of Terorrism (SSOT) list is a political instrument of the United States to discredit and sabotage the financial and commercial relations of countries that do not agree with Washington’s policy.

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