Cuba was removed from the U.S. black list of nations that support international terrorism Friday, clearing away an obstacle for resumption of diplomatic relations between the two countries...

...Despite the U.S.-Cuba rapprochement, Sen. Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, said, “The fact is, the Castro regime has not shown one iota of change in its actions that earned it a spot on the state sponsor of terrorism list.’’

Menendez noted two mysterious clandestine arms shipments involving Cuba in the last few years as well as Cuba giving safe haven to Joanne Chesimard, a Black Liberation Army member who was convicted in the 1973 murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster. After a jail break, she escaped to Cuba where she was granted political asylum.