The Cuban government denied on Friday 24/1 the presence on the island of rebels of the National Liberation Army (ELN), an organization against which it was later announced that the Colombian army was conducting operations. Havana’s announcement follows new US President Donald Trump’s decision, on his first day in the White House, to reverse a recent decision by his predecessor Joe Biden to remove Cuba from the US list of states that Washington says support “terrorism ». “I categorically confirm that no member of the Colombian National Liberation Army (ELN) or its central administration is in Cuba,” said Eugenio Martinez, head of the Latin American and Caribbean Department at the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs, via X. The presence of ELN officials in Havana had pushed the first Trump administration (2017-2021) to register the communist-ruled island on the US blacklist, as Washington criticized its refusal to proceed with the extradition of the armed group’s leaders in Colombia, such as had demanded […]
Source: News Beast
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