In the latest in a series of measures by US President Donald Trump’s administration to increase pressure on the Cuban government, the United States on Friday announced its sanctions against Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel for his role “in the Cuban regime’s brutality toward the Cuban people.”
The United States announced its first sanctions on Friday against Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel for his role “in the Cuban regime’s brutality toward the Cuban people.”
It is the latest in a series of measures by US President Donald Trump‘s administration to increase pressure on the Cuban government.
The United States was restricting visas for the Cuban president and other high-ranking government officials, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in an X post on the fourth anniversary of historic anti-government protests in Cuba.
Demonstrations rocked the island in July 2021 as thousands took to the streets to protest shortages of basic goods and worsening economic conditions.
Hundreds were arrested, one person died and dozens were injured in the lagest protests since Fidel Castro‘s 1959 communist revolution.
Officials sanctioned included Defense Minister Alvaro Lopez Miera and Interior Minister Lazaro Alberto Alvarez Casas.
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