CAMPAIGNERS condemned the United States today for continuing to list Cuba as a “state sponsor of terrorism.”

Washington’s annual Country Reports on Terrorism, published on Monday, also apply that designation to North Korea, Iran and Syria.

It means that the four countries face sanctions and that individuals or nations who trade with them are liable for legal penalties.

The US-based National Network on Cuba (NNOC) condemned what its described as a  “false designation” and called for an end to Washington’s terror towards Cuba.

The network argued that the true purpose of slandering Cuba as a “terrorist” state is to justify the brutal and illegal US blockade of the socialist island, which has now been in placed for more than 60 years.

The NNOC said that during his presidential campaign, Joe Biden promised to “reverse [Donald)] Trump’s harsher sanctions and revert to the [Barack] Obama administration’s policies of normalisation, but he has failed to deliver.”

They said that Mr Obama “removed Cuba from the [state sponsor of terrorism] list and began to normalise relations with Cuba,” but at the end of his term, Mr Trump “redesignated Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism.”

NNOC is a coalition of more than 50 organisations working to lift the US blockade and end Cuba’s inclusion on that list.