International community reacts to Cuba's removal from spurious list of sponsors of terrorism

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Governments and social movements reacted on Tuesday to the removal of Cuba from the list of alleged sponsors of terrorism, by the decision of outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden. teleSUR

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00:00The world celebrates the Cuban victory after the island nation was removed from the U.S. list of

00:05state sponsor of terrorism while they keep on calling for an end to all coercive measures

00:10against the Caribbean country. The measure was announced by the U.S. government and was welcomed

00:16by nations such as Venezuela, Colombia and Bolivia as well as by representatives of the

00:22Cuban solidarity movements. Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro stressed the need to lift the

00:27economic, financial and commercial blockade that has affected Cuban society for more than 60 years.

00:34For his part, Bolivian president Luis Arce also praised the decision and reaffirmed

00:39that justice had been done after the unilateral and notorious listing in 2021. Organizations

00:45such as the National Network on Cuba and also the ALBA-TCP

00:50welcomed the news and highlighted the global solidarity that led to this result.

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