Cuban official protest U.S. Inspection Policy

Cuba, Tuesday, delivered a formal protest to the United States of new rules to tighten checks on security for airline passengers traveling from or through Cuba and 13 other countries.

Cuban Foreign Minister said the company calling Jonathan Farrar, who heads the U.S. Interests Section in Swiss Embassy in Havana in order to submit objections.

"We reject the new evil actions committed the United States government that included Cuba in the so-called list of countries supporting terrorism," said the message.

Cuban official daily Granma criticized the new policy that the United States Monday, calling him a "paranoid anti-terrorist".

Affairs of the U.S. Transportation Security (TSA) said that the new policy, including increased checks to all international passengers entering the United States airport, and the tightening of checks mandatory for passengers originating or through 14 states. Fourteen countries other than Cuba are the countries predominantly Muslim.

Countries that become targets of the new policy include among others Cuba, Iran, Sudan, and Syria, all countries that support terrorism by the U.S..

This policy was also applied to the passengers who travel from or through Afghanistan, Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Yemen and Nigeria.

Currently there are no regular plane flying from Cuba to the United States, but four aircraft per day connecting Havana with three cities in the United States, including Miami, where more than one million refugees and Cuban immigrants settled.

Aircraft increased to eight aircraft per day in late December, after United States President Barack Obama before pulling some travel restrictions to Cuba and sending.

Washington stop diplomatic relations with Cuba in 1961 and to impose sanctions to the economic boycott that the communist country.

Both governments recently resumed dialogue on migration issues and the post, but efforts to end the boycott was still blocked by the United States, which insisted that Cuba must change its policies once, while Havana assess the United States must do the same.

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