World personalities call for removing Cuba from list of sponsors of terrorism

HAVANA, Cuba, Jul 11 (ACN) Cuba is not a state sponsor of terrorism, it is a state sponsor of global welfare, stresses an article published in Peoples Dispatch, which advocates eliminating the Caribbean nation from that unilateral list of the U.S. government.

Authored by Roger Waters, Vijay Prashad and Manolo De Los Santos, the text is published in this international media project and highlights that Cuba, instead of exporting arms all over the world, has a long history of health internationalism with Cuban doctors and medicines that are a familiar sight from Pakistan to Peru.

The basic idea behind this list is that the U.S. State Department determines which countries have supported acts of international terrorism, the article refers, adding that the U.S. government does not provide evidence of such acts.

The authors stress that designating Cuba as a U.S. state sponsor of terrorism profoundly damages the ability of the island's government and its people to carry out the basic functions of life.

The enormous power of the U.S. government over the world financial system means that banks and traders refuse to do business with Cuba, fearing reprisals for breaking the blockade, they explain.

Because of this policy, authors continued, companies refuse to sell Cuba raw materials, reagents, diagnostic kits, drugs and pharmaceutical devices, and a range of other materials needed to operate the island's excellent but stressed public health and science system.