Hare Comments on U.S. Listing Cuba as State Sponsor of Terrorism
Ambassador Paul Hare, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was quoted in a Reuters article on Cuba’s designation as a state sponsor of terrorism by the United States.
The article, titled “U.S. terrorism sponsor listing further complicates Cuba banking,” covers the last-minute relisting by former President Donald Trump and the impacts its had on the Cuban economy. President Biden will likely remove Cuba from the list, but as Hare states, this should’ve been an issue easily resolved through diplomacy. However, the trouble U.S.-Cuban relations made that prospect unlikely under Trump.
An excerpt:
In giving reasons for the relisting, then Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Cuba was “repeatedly providing support for acts of international terrorism” by harboring U.S. fugitives and Colombian rebel leaders, as well as supporting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
‘The actual issues given by Trump and Pompeo for their move of harboring for example some alleged murderers would normally be dealt with by diplomacy if the country were any other but Cuba,’ said Paul Hare, a former British ambassador to the island who lectures on global studies at Boston University.
The full article can be read on Reuters‘ website.
Ambassador Paul Hare was a British diplomat for 30 years and the British ambassador to Cuba from 2001-04. He now teaches classes at Boston University on Diplomatic Practice, Arms Control, Intercultural Communication, and on Cuba in Transition. His novel, “Moncada — A Cuban Story,” set in modern Cuba, was published in 2010. His book, “Making Diplomacy Work; Intelligent Innovation for the Modern World” was published in 2015. Learn more about Professor Hare on his faculty profile.