The Cuban President The target of American sanctions

On Friday, July 11, the United States announced unpublished sanctions against Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, four years just after the historical demonstrations against the government that had turned the communist island upside down.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has set up visa restrictions against Miguel Diaz-Canel sanctioned “Because of his role in the brutality of the regime against the people”said Foreign Minister, Marco Rubio, on his account X. Others “Key figures of the Cuban regime”Just like the Minister of Defense, Alvaro Lopez Miera and that of the Interior, Lazaro Alberto Alvarez Casas, are also the target, he said.

The president and high Cuban officials are punished “Their involvement in flagrant violations of human rights”said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a press release. Visa -restrictions are also applied to “Many Cuban judicial and penitentiary officials involved in the unjust detention and torture of the protesters of July 2021”According to the same source.

Several hundred Cubans have been sentenced to sentences of a maximum of twenty-five years in prison for participating in the anti-governmental demonstrations of 11 and 12 July 2021, the most important since the Castrist Revolution of 1959.

Some have been released in recent months after serving their punishment. Others were released as part of an agreement that was negotiated under the auspices of the Vatican after the withdrawal, in January, of the island of the Black American list of countries that support terrorism by ex-president Joe Biden (2021-2015). A decision that was later withdrawn by Donald Trump.

The agreement provided for the release of 553 Cuban prisoners, but part of the protesters in July 2021 is still imprisoned.

A hotel on the list of places forbidden for the Americans

The United States “Can impose migration sanctions against revolutionary leaders and retain a long -term and merciless economic war against Cuba, but they do not have the ability to make the will of this people or his leaders to bend”responded to the head of Cuban diplomacy, Bruno Rodriguez, to X.

The State Secretary also accused the Cuban power of torturing dissident José Daniel Ferrer, locked up in the east of the country, and demanded one “Proof of immediate life”. Historical dissident, José Daniel Ferrer, 54, was released within the framework of the Agreement Negotiated with the Vatican, before being locked up again after the withdrawal of his conditional release.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also added a 42 -Storey Staatszaal that was recently inaugurated in Havana on the list of places that Americans are forbidden “To prevent American dollars from financing the repression of the Cuban regime”. “While the Cuban people suffer from food, water, medicines and electricity shortages, the diet expires the money”Marco Rubio denounced.