Cuba today maintains its determination not to give in and to continue fighting, despite the island’s reinstatement on the list of countries sponsoring terrorism and other interference against it.

This was stated the day before by the highest authorities of the Caribbean nation, who considered that the designation of their country on the unilateral list seeks to intensify the economic war unleashed by the United States.

In this regard, President Miguel Díaz-Canel stressed that the measure of his US counterpart Donald Trump is an act of arrogance and contempt, which is not surprising and is aimed at domination.

From the social network X, he denounced that the action is also a mockery and abuse that confirms the discredit of the lists and unilateral mechanisms of coercion of the US government.

On the same platform, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez described this and other new measures by Washington as «medieval and a step backwards in terms of civilisation».

He pointed out that «drunk with arrogance, President Trump decides without reason that Cuba sponsors terrorism. He knows he is lying. His determination is to increase the punishment and the economic war against Cuban families».

Meanwhile, the head of the National Assembly of People’s Power (Parliament), Esteban Lazo, said that Trump’s decision «is contrary to the sustained and firm demand of the Cuban people and the vast majority of the international community».

Similarly, the Secretary of Organisation of the Communist Party of Cuba, Roberto Morales, stated that the largest of the Antilles will continue to fight «against this and all the demons that come from the new US administration».

This Monday, Trump revoked the order of just six days ago by his predecessor, Joe Biden, which excluded Cuba from the unilateral list of countries sponsoring terrorism.

The move is one of several that the newly inaugurated president has taken in his first hours in office, related to orders and actions by Biden that he had considered harmful, and which he has begun to get rid of through a series of executive orders.

On 14 January, Biden made his decision, albeit belatedly, that Cuba «should no longer be designated as a state sponsor of terrorism».

He also issued a waiver for Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, also known as the Liberty Act, for a period of six months and rescinded the 2017 National Security Presidential Memorandum 5 on Cuba policy to eliminate the so-called restricted list.

Cuba was designated by Washington as a «state sponsor of terrorism» in January 2021, in one of Trump’s last actions before the end of his first term.