(credit: leahy.senate.gov) U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-V) is among several lawmakers demanding Secretary of State Michael Pompeo answer on the out-going Trump administration’s designating Cuba a sponsor of terrorism on Monday. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Democrat Senators are demanding answers from the U.S.
(photo credit: Gary Raynaldo / ©Diplomatic Times) Vintage American cars in Havana, Cuba By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The outgoing Trump administration designated Cuba as a state sponsor of terror on Monday, effectively reversing an Obama-era action that removed the Latin American country
Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, in Khartoum, Sudan, on August 25, 2020. (U.S. Embassy Khartoum photo by Alsanosi Ali) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Sudan just got a very sweet $1.2 Billion loan deal courtesy of
Cuba El Banco Financiero Internacional, S.A. (BFI) (Banco Financiero Internacional) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The outgoing U.S. Trump Administration announced Friday it has placed Banco Financiero International S.A. (BFI) on its blacklist of Cuban companies it claims has financial ties to the Latin American
Photo by Gary Raynaldo / © Diplomatic Times / The Habana Libre Hotel, located in the Vedado section of Havana, used to be the American-owned Havana Hilton before Fidel Castro came to power and confiscated it along with other US properties in Cuba. The hotel,
Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, in Khartoum, Sudan, on August 25, 2020. (U.S. Embassy Khartoum photo by Alsanosi Ali) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The U.S. has officially removed Sudan from its list of state sponsors
Credit: Wikipedia / Υπουργείο Εξωτερικών / Gebran Gerge Bassil is a Lebanese politician who serves as the president of the Free Patriotic Movement By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The United States has sanctionded Lebanese political leader Gibran Bassil for alleged corruption. Bassil, the leader
Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, in Khartoum, Sudan, on August 25, 2020. (U.S. Embassy Khartoum photo by Alsanosi Ali) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The U.S. Trump administration has removed Sudan from a terrorism blacklist after the
US blacklisted key Iranian banks in a crippling blow to the country’s financial sector By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The US Treasury has imposed sanctions on 18 Iranian banks and financial institutions effectively cutting them cut off from the international financial system. “Today, the
Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers remarks to the media on Iran Snapback Sanctions, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on September 21, 2020. [State Department photo by Ron Przysucha. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The decision by the Trump