DAfter the recent large-scale protests, the U.S. government has a new government Sanctions Impose on Cuba. The White House announced on Thursday that the current Secretary of Defense and the Cuban Ministry of the Interior, which promoted the suppression of protests, were affected.
The Cuban government called the sanctions “baseless and defamatory.” Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez wrote on Twitter that the United States should resolve its own country’s repression and police violence.
Recently, thousands of Cubans have spontaneously taken to the streets in many cities to fight for freedom and oppose oppression and a deprived economy. For decades, there have been no such protests in Caribbean countries. According to activists, the authorities of Caribbean countries suppressed the demonstrators. More than a hundred people were arrested. A 36-year-old man was killed in a demonstration on the outskirts of Havana.
The Cuban economy is being severely affected by the sluggish tourism industry during the pandemic and US sanctions. Lack of food and medicine.
Biden’s news
The President of the United States said in a statement: “The Cuban people have the same rights as all people to freedom of speech and freedom of peaceful assembly.” Joe BidenThe United States is on the side of the “brave Cubans.” “This is just the beginning-the United States will continue to punish those responsible for the suppression of the Cuban people.”
Biden condemned the “mass arrests and trials” of “people who dare to speak out.” He announced that he would continue to pressure the government to release “unreasonably detained political prisoners”, restore Internet access, and protect the basic rights of Cubans.
Freeze assets and prohibit transactions
The sanctions are based on a decree that targets perpetrators of serious human rights violations and corruption around the world, including the freezing of property. As announced by the U.S. Treasury Department, they also prohibit American citizens and companies from conducting business with Secretary of Defense Alvaro Lopez Miera or the affected unit of the Cuban Ministry of the Interior, the National Special Brigade (SNB).
The US government reiterated that it is still studying whether it can restrict remittances to the island under certain conditions.
There are also plans to increase the staff of the US Embassy in Havana. This is currently only a minimal occupation. Since 2016, dozens of diplomats and their relatives living in Havana, the capital of Cuba, have complained of puzzling headaches, hearing loss, dizziness and nausea. Then the embassy staff was reduced to a minimum.
