Biden Administration Apologizes for Letting Cuba Tour Sensitive Areas of Miami Airport

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Biden Administration Apologizes for Letting Cuba Tour Sensitive Areas of Miami Airport

Christian K. Caruzo 26 May 2024

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), State Department, and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) all reportedly apologized after members of the communist regime of Cuba received a secret guided tour of Miami International Airport on May 20, in disregard of that country’s status as a U.S.-designated state sponsor of terrorism.

The approximately five-hour-long tour reportedly saw five officials from the Castro family regime visit TSA’s control facilities at Miami International Airport. The high-security areas the communist officials were allowed to visit reportedly contain some of the agency’s sensitive computer systems.

The local Miami-Dade County administration, as well as airport personnel, stated they were unaware of the visit, which prompted their immediate condemnation as well as the condemnation of the Cuban diaspora in Florida.

Many objected to the choice of May 20, Cuban Independence Day, as the date of the tour. Throughout its over six decades of communist rule, the Castro regime has carried out extensive efforts to prevent Cubans from celebrating their country’s independence day, attempting to replace the holiday with July 26 — the anniversary of late dictator Fidel Castro’s terrorist attack on the Moncada military garrison in 1953.

Mayor of Miami-Dade County Daniella Levine Cava informed via social media on Thursday that she had met with representatives from DHS, TSA, and the Department of State to share the local community’s “deep frustration” over the visit of Castro regime officials.

“The agencies apologized and committed to changing their protocols to ensure we are informed before any other foreign delegations tour our airport,” Levine Cara stated.

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...an event that seems to fully comport with this other recent development:

May 15, 2024, 4:37 PM EDT / Source: Reuters
 
WASHINGTON — The U.S. removed Cuba from a short list of countries the United States alleges are “not cooperating fully” in its fight against terrorism, a State Department official said on Wednesday.The official cited the resumption of law enforcement cooperation between Cuba and the U.S. as one the reasons why the previous designation was deemed “no longer appropriate.”

“The department determined that the circumstances for Cuba’s certification as a ‘not fully cooperating country’ have changed from 2022 to 2023,” the official said.

The decision marks a tepid if symbolically important move on behalf of the Biden administration, which until now has largely maintained Trump-era restrictions on the Communist-run island.

The cooperation against terrorism list, which the State Department is required by law to provide the U.S. Congress, is not the same as the State Sponsors of Terrorism list, according to the department official. Former U.S. President Donald Trump separately designated Cuba a state sponsor of terrorism just prior to leaving office, a jab that Cuba maintains has contributed to a severe economic crisis on the island, and to shortages of food, fuel and medicine.

“This move by the Biden Administration could well be a prelude to the State Department reviewing Cuba’s designation as a state sponsor of terrorism,” William LeoGrande, a professor at Washington’s American University, told Reuters.

The State Department official said the state sponsor designation is determined by separate statutory criteria.

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