{"id":3558,"date":"2021-01-23T13:08:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T13:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/?p=3558"},"modified":"2021-01-25T15:57:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T15:57:16","slug":"biden-must-reverse-pompeos-terrorist-move-against-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/biden-must-reverse-pompeos-terrorist-move-against-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Must Reverse Pompeo\u2019s \u2018Terrorist\u2019 Move Against Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Far from being a \u201cstate sponsor of terrorism,\u201d as the Trump administration claimed, Cuba has been an ally in fighting it.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">By&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/authors\/peter-kornbluh\/\">Peter Kornbluh<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>O<\/strong>n October 6, 1976, a Cuban airliner carrying 73 passengers was blown out of the sky off the coast of Barbados. All of the men, women, and children aboard were killed in what was, at the time, the most flagrant act of aviation-related terrorism ever committed in the Western Hemisphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CIA and FBI intelligence reports identified two leaders of the violent anti-Castro movement, Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles, as masterminds of the plane bombing. Both were arrested and incarcerated in Caracas, Venezuela, their base of operations. Both managed to get out\u2014Posada escaped from prison in 1985 and, a year later, Bosch was acquitted by a Venezuelan tribunal after dubious legal proceedings. And both eventually returned to the United States, illegally, to take up residence in that bastion of anti-Castro activity, Miami. Despite the fact that the Justice Department identified Bosch and Posada as purveyors of terrorism (\u201cFor 30 years Bosch has been resolute and unwavering in his advocacy of terrorist violence,\u201d one DOJ assessment stated in 1989, before President George H.W. Bush ordered his release from an immigration detention center and granted him asylum), both of them managed to evade full accountability for their atrocities and live out their violent lives as free men in Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their cases reflect a long history of perverted politics surrounding terrorism and Cuba\u2014which continued with outgoing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo\u2019s shameless decision to redesignate that country as a sponsor of terrorist acts. \u201cThe State Department has designated Cuba as a State Sponsor of Terrorism for repeatedly providing support for acts of international terrorism in granting safe harbor to terrorists,\u201d Pompeo declared on January 11, reversing the Obama administration\u2019s decision to delist Cuba in 2015. To make this claim, Pompeo reportedly circumvented his own State Department\u2019s Bureau of Counter-Terrorism, where the professional analysts know there is no evidence to support it. Indeed, the Cuba designation has been widely denounced as baseless\u2014a self-serving political gambit by Pompeo to attract Florida voters to his expected 2024 presidential campaign, and Donald Trump\u2019s parting effort to sabotage the incoming Biden administration\u2019s ability to restore sanity to US-Cuban relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The State Sponsor of Terrorism (SST) list was created in 1979 as part of the Export Administration Act\u2014a legal clause intended to give the executive branch the ability to restrict exports, arms transfers, and other commercial transactions to sanction rogue governments for backing international terror campaigns. Syria, Libya, Iraq, and South Yemen were the first nations to be designated sponsors of international terrorism. But on March 1, 1982, the Reagan administration formally added Cuba. No clear rationale was given at the time, and the economic sanctions that accompanied the designation were inconsequential, since the US embargo already prevented commercial relations with the Castro government. But in his January 1982 State of the Union address, Reagan telegraphed that he would redefine Cuba\u2019s support for revolutionary movements in Central America as support for terrorist activity. \u201cToward those who would export terrorism and subversion in the Caribbean and elsewhere, especially Cuba and Libya,\u201d he told Congress, \u201cwe will act with firmness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once Cuba was on the list, it proved impossible to get it off\u2014not because there was ongoing evidence of Cuban support for terrorism, but because no president wanted to face the political repercussions from the powerful anti-Castro lobby in Florida. In the mid 1990s, the Clinton administration\u2019s top Cuba official, Richard Nuccio, began exploring ways to remove Cuba from the list but found little interest from his superiors. \u201cI never saw any intelligence that justified Cuba\u2019s listing on the terrorism list,\u201d recalls Nuccio, who held the title of \u201cSpecial Advisor to the President and Secretary of State for Cuba\u201d at the National Security Council. \u201cIt was done for political reasons and sustained for political reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet, even as political inertia kept Cuba on the terrorism list, Washington and Havana found ways to collaborate on counterterrorism efforts. During the 1984 presidential campaign, Cuban authorities uncovered what they believed to be an extremist plot to assassinate President Reagan in North Carolina; Fidel Castro authorized one of his top UN diplomats in New York to pass that information to the head of US security at the UN mission. In 1997, after Luis Posada Carriles\u2014by then a fugitive in Central America\u2014orchestrated a series of hotel bombings in Havana that killed one foreign businessman and injured 11 others, the US Interests Section in Havana began to share intelligence on bomb plots that enabled Cuban authorities to intercept the bombers. In May 1998, Castro dispatched a special emissary, the famed writer Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez, to Washington with a message for Clinton about a plot to bomb another passenger plane and a discreet invitation for an FBI team to come to Havana and review the intelligence. Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez met with the National Security Council\u2019s counterterrorism czar, Richard Clarke, and other officials in the West Wing. Clarke agreed to an FBI-Cuban collaboration; a team of agents quietly traveled to Havana in June for three days of confidential briefings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The election of Barack Obama created high expectations for what Obama called \u201ca new beginning with Cuba\u201d and an honest revision of the terrorism list. \u201cI know there\u2019s a longer journey that must be traveled to overcome decades of mistrust,\u201d Obama declared in April 2009, a few months after his inauguration, \u201cbut there are critical steps we can take toward a new day.\u201d For the first six years of his presidency, however, removing Cuba from the terrorism list was a \u201ccritical step\u201d Obama could not muster the political will to take. Instead, the administration revisited the SST designation following the December 17, 2014, accord between Obama and Ra\u00fal Castro to normalize diplomatic relations. As part of that dramatic announcement, Obama directed Secretary of State John Kerry to undertake a full legal and intelligence review to determine if Cuba met the statutory criteria for \u201crescission of Cuba\u2019s designation as a state sponsor of terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.thenation.com\/flex\/NA\/key\/G0EECAT\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After 33 years on the SST list, on April 14, 2015, Obama certified to Congress that \u201c(i) the Government of Cuba has not provided any support for international terrorism during the preceding 6-month period; and (ii) the Government of Cuba has provided assurances that it will not support acts of international terrorism in the future.\u201d The United States would \u201ccontinue to have differences with the Cuban government, but our concerns over a wide range of Cuba\u2019s policies and actions fall outside the criteria that is relevant to whether to rescind Cuba\u2019s designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism,\u201d the White House stated in a press release. \u201cThat determination is based on the statutory standard\u2014and the facts\u2014and those facts have led the President to declare his intention to rescind Cuba\u2019s State Sponsor of Terrorism designation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those \u201cfacts\u201d have remained essentially the same over the past five years\u2014despite Pompeo\u2019s decision to reverse Obama\u2019s rescission. The aged US fugitives that Cuba is once again accused of harboring have been on the island for close to half a century. While condemnable, their crimes do not meet the statutory criteria for international terrorism, as American University professor William LeoGrande&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/responsiblestatecraft.org\/2021\/01\/14\/putting-cuba-on-the-terrorism-list-is-unjustified-and-unwise\/\">has pointed out in&nbsp;<em>Responsible Statecraft<\/em><\/a>. Similarly, the Colombian guerrilla leaders in Cuba cited in the State Department designation are there under an international accord for peace negotiations between the Colombian government and the militant National Liberation Army, facilitated by Cuba and Norway\u2014not because Cuba is providing safe haven for them to organize terrorist atrocities. \u201cCuba has been Norway\u2019s partner in the Colombian peace process,\u201d Norway\u2019s foreign minister, Ine Marie Eriksen S\u00f8reide, stated last week, rejecting Pompeo\u2019s arguments. \u201cIf a country risks being placed on a terrorism list as a result of facilitating peace efforts, it could set a negative precedent for international peace efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCuba opposes terrorism. It has been a victim of this scourge,\u201d President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel reminded the world last week. Members of Congress, former Obama administration officials, and even veteran CIA experts have also denounced the Trump administration for crassly playing politics with the deadly serious threat of terrorism. \u201cIn the final days of the Administration, efforts to politicize important decisions concerning our national security are unacceptable and threaten to damage future diplomatic efforts toward Cuba and set a harmful precedent for future designations,\u201d Senators Patrick Leahy, Amy Klobuchar, and seven other senators&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.leahy.senate.gov\/press\/klobuchar-leahy-and-colleagues-demand-answers-from-the-state-department-about-move-to-designate-cuba-a-state-sponsor-of-terrorism\">wrote to Pompeo<\/a>. \u201cOne of the consequences of the sort of misuse of the tool that the secretary of state is contemplating is to weaken the deterrence of true state sponsorship of terrorism and undermine the incentives for improved behavior\u201d by rogue states, Paul Pillar, a former deputy director of the CIA\u2019s Counterterrorism Center,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/paul-pillar\/misusing-counterterrorism-tool-again-175772\">warned in&nbsp;<em>The National Interest<\/em><\/a>. \u201cThe ultimate cost of misusing and thus weakening the tools of counterterrorism will take the form of lives lost in the future to international terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most immediately, there will be a cost to future US-Cuba relations. Putting Cuba back on the list, as Obama\u2019s former White House aide Ben Rhodes stated via Twitter, is nothing less than \u201cpoliticized garbage meant to tie [Biden\u2019s] hand.\u201d Although Biden can reverse many of Trump\u2019s executive directives with a stroke of a pen, removing Cuba from the SST list requires a series of time-consuming, statutory steps: a formal State Department review; a presidential certification to Congress, and a 45-day waiting period during which Congress can object before Cuba can be, once again, rescinded. That lengthy timetable gives opponents of positive engagement, led by Pompeo, Senator Marco Rubio, and every other Republican with presidential aspirations and an eye on the Florida electorate, ample opportunity to attack the new Biden administration and attempt to sabotage the restoration of normalized bilateral ties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amid the avalanche of executive actions President Biden has promised during his first days in the White House to undo Trump\u2019s ugly legacy, initiating the process to delist Cuba will be taken as an early signal of the new administration\u2019s intent to reset Cuba policy. Restoring a serious, honest approach to US-Cuban relations is at stake, and so is the credibility of US leadership on an issue of grave national and international security. For the sanctity of truth and integrity, it is time to remove Cuba from the terrorism list\u2014once and for all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/world\/biden-cuba-pompeo-trump\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/world\/biden-cuba-pompeo-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far from being a \u201cstate sponsor of terrorism,\u201d as the Trump administration claimed, Cuba has been an ally in fighting it. By&nbsp;Peter Kornbluh On October<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/biden-must-reverse-pompeos-terrorist-move-against-cuba\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101011,"featured_media":3559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2371,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/terrorism-against-cuba-is-state-policy\/","url_meta":{"origin":3558,"position":0},"title":"Terrorism against Cuba is state policy","author":"Editorial Team","date":"July 14, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Two months after the terrorist Alazo Bar\u00f3 shot up the Cuban embassy in Washington, the complicit silence of the Trump administration, and the impunity afforded his mentors, indicate that violence will continue to be part of U.S. government policy toward Cuba The United States government has been the main organizer\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;US Aggression&quot;","block_context":{"text":"US Aggression","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/category\/usa\/us-aggression\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/cuban-embassy.jpg?fit=700%2C468&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/cuban-embassy.jpg?fit=700%2C468&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/cuban-embassy.jpg?fit=700%2C468&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/cuban-embassy.jpg?fit=700%2C468&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2959,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/the-correlation-between-u-s-democracy-and-cia-sponsored-terror-in-cubas-case\/","url_meta":{"origin":3558,"position":1},"title":"The Correlation Between U.S. Democracy and CIA-Sponsored Terror in Cuba\u2019s Case","author":"Editorial Team","date":"October 17, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Fidel Castro had chartered a course for Cuba to ensure the island\u2019s complete liberation from U.S. colonial influence and interference. Participating at the UN\u2019s Sixth Committee during a debate on \u201cWays to Eliminate International Terrorism\u201d, Cuban Ambassador to the UN Ana Rodriguez\u00a0reminded\u00a0that the island has been a target for U.S.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Featured&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Featured","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/category\/news\/featured\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cubana-Flight-455-Memorial-800x535-1.jpg?fit=800%2C535&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cubana-Flight-455-Memorial-800x535-1.jpg?fit=800%2C535&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cubana-Flight-455-Memorial-800x535-1.jpg?fit=800%2C535&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cubana-Flight-455-Memorial-800x535-1.jpg?fit=800%2C535&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3482,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/cuban-foreign-minister-condemns-hypocritical-and-cynical-qualification-of-cuba-as-state-sponsor-of-terrorism\/","url_meta":{"origin":3558,"position":2},"title":"Cuban Foreign Minister condemns &#8220;hypocritical and cynical qualification of Cuba as State sponsor of Terrorism&#8221;","author":"Editorial Team","date":"January 12, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodr\u00edguez Parrilla, just a few minutes ago, condemned from his profile on the social account Twitter the \"hypocritical and cynical qualification of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism,\"\u00a0announced this Monday by the United States government. Rodr\u00edguez Parrilla described the act as a\u00a0\"political opportunism\", an intention\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Featured&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Featured","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/category\/news\/featured\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/0-bruno.jpg?fit=748%2C498&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/0-bruno.jpg?fit=748%2C498&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/0-bruno.jpg?fit=748%2C498&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/0-bruno.jpg?fit=748%2C498&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8096,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/cuba-bidens-moral-debt\/","url_meta":{"origin":3558,"position":3},"title":"Cuba: Biden\u2019s Moral Debt","author":"Editorial Team","date":"May 24, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"'' Joe Biden should remove Cuba from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism without further delay, a decision taken by his predecessor Donald Trump''","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Featured&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Featured","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/category\/news\/featured\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6114-2-scaled.jpeg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6114-2-scaled.jpeg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6114-2-scaled.jpeg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6114-2-scaled.jpeg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6114-2-scaled.jpeg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1903,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/american-criticism-of-cuba-on-human-rights-is-total-hypocrisy-given-u-s-history-of-terrorizing-the-island\/","url_meta":{"origin":3558,"position":4},"title":"American criticism of Cuba on human rights is total hypocrisy, given U.S. history of terrorizing the island","author":"Editorial Team","date":"December 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The U.S. has tried to crush Cuba in a campaign of terror for over 50 years and tortured detainees at Guant\u00e1namo NOVEMBER 30, 2016 The former Cuban president, known to his countrymen as El Comandante, survived 10 U.S. presidential administrations \u2014 and also hundreds of assassination attempts by the CIA.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cuba&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cuba","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/category\/cuba\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/guantanamo_detainees.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/guantanamo_detainees.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/guantanamo_detainees.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/guantanamo_detainees.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/guantanamo_detainees.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2106,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/the-u-s-has-terrorized-cuba-for-over-50-years-fidel-castro-is-right-to-be-wary-of-obamas-claims\/","url_meta":{"origin":3558,"position":5},"title":"The U.S. has terrorized Cuba for over 50 years \u2014 Fidel Castro is right to be wary of Obama&#8217;s claims","author":"Editorial Team","date":"April 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Since the 1959 revolution the U.S. has invaded Cuba, tried assassinations, imposed an embargo & harbored terrorists By Ben Norton We don't need the empire to give us anything,\" asserted revolutionary leader Fidel Castro in a recent article criticizing President Obama in the wake of his trip to Cuba. Obama\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cuba&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cuba","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/category\/cuba\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/fidel-and-Obama.jpeg?fit=700%2C415&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/fidel-and-Obama.jpeg?fit=700%2C415&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/fidel-and-Obama.jpeg?fit=700%2C415&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/fidel-and-Obama.jpeg?fit=700%2C415&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3xdTY-Vo","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/pomp-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}