“Without a question,” the nominee to be Secretary of State, Senator Rubio, said yesterday, when asked if the Cuban dictatorship from which his parents fled belongs on the list of terrorist states. The question was posed by a fellow Cuban descendant, Senator Cruz, and Mr. Rubio didn’t leave the context in the air. “Nothing that the Biden administration has agreed to in the last 12 or 18 hours,” he said, “binds the next administration, which starts on Monday.”

The lifeline that was tossed to the Castroite regime was but one in a flurry of last-minute executive orders issued by President Biden before leaving office. The White House announced it would remove Cuba from the list of terror-backing states. President-elect Trump’s vowed to issue 100 EOs on day one. Many of them will simply cancel the outgoing president’s late writs. Cuba, therefore, will likely be re-listed as a supporter of terror. 

Rightly so. Cuba, Mr. Rubio made clear, backs a Colombia-based terrorist group, the FARC. It has ties to the arch-terrorists at Tehran. It maintains “friendly” relations with Hamas and Hezbollah. “There is zero doubt in my mind that they meet all the qualifications for being a state sponsor of terrorism,” the Floridan said. He also mentioned Havana’s ties to Venezuela’s President, Nicolás Maduro, who was inaugurated Friday.