{"id":36597,"date":"2020-12-30T20:48:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T04:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=36597"},"modified":"2020-12-30T20:48:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T04:48:12","slug":"cuba-and-washingtons-absurd-overuse-of-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/30\/cuba-and-washingtons-absurd-overuse-of-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba and Washington&#8217;s Absurd Overuse of Sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/\">The American Conservative<\/a>:<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Mike Pompeo is reportedly considering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/29\/us\/politics\/pompeo-cuba-terrorism-sponsor-list.html\">adding Cuba<\/a> to the list of state sponsors of terrorism in another last-minute move to box in the incoming administration:<\/p>\n<p><i>State Department officials have drawn up a proposal to designate Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, a final-hour foreign policy move that would complicate plans by the incoming Biden administration to relax increased American pressure on Havana.<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Confirmed: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is looking to designate Cuba as a State Sponsor of Terrorism in the coming days, complicating Biden\u2019s intentions of engaging with Havana, and once again working to erase a key Obama policy. Story coming.<\/p>\n<p> &mdash; Vivian Salama (@vmsalama) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vmsalama\/status\/1344315400746631176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 30, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Like the other designations that Pompeo&#8217;s State Department has made or considered in recent years, naming Cuba a state sponsor of terrorism is without merit and it is being done mainly to spite the next administration. If it happens, it will be a stupid, petty, and harmful decision. That is what we have come to expect from Pompeo and the rest of this administration, but that is no excuse for what they&#8217;re doing.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/state-of-the-union\/cuba-and-washingtons-absurd-overuse-of-sanctions\/\">Read the rest of the article<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The American Conservative: Mike Pompeo is reportedly considering adding Cuba to the list of state sponsors of terrorism in another last-minute move to box in the incoming administration: State Department officials have drawn up a proposal to designate Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, a final-hour foreign policy move that would complicate plans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-36597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36599,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36597\/revisions\/36599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36597"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=36597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}