The United States announced, on Friday, July 11, unpublished sanctions against Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, four years just after the historic demonstrations against the government that had shaken Castriste Island.
The State Department has set up visa restrictions against Miguel Diaz-Canel sanctioned “For its role in the brutality of the regime against the people”said Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, on his account X. Others “Key figures of the Cuban regime”like the Minister of Defense, Alvaro Lopez Miera, and that of the interior, Lazaro Alberto Alvarez Casas, are also targeted, he said.
The president and senior Cuban officials are sanctioned for “Their involvement in blatant violations of human rights”said the State Department 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 demonstrators of July 2021”according to the same source.
Several hundred Cubans have been sentenced to sentences of up to twenty-five years in prison for participating in the anti-government demonstrations of July 11 and 12, 2021, the most important since the Castrist Revolution of 1959.
Some have been released in recent months after serving their sentence. Others were released as part of an agreement negotiated under the auspices of the Vatican after the withdrawal, in January, of the island of the black American list of countries supporting terrorism by ex-president Joe Biden (2021-2015). A decision revoked later by Donald Trump.
The agreement provided for the release of 553 Cuban prisoners, but part of the demonstrators in July 2021 are still imprisoned.
A hotel on the list of places prohibited to the Americans
The United States “Can impose migration sanctions against revolutionary leaders and maintain an prolonged and merciless economic war against Cuba, but they do not have the capacity to make the will of this people or its leaders to bend”reacted the head of Cuban diplomacy, Bruno Rodriguez, on X.
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The US Secretary of State also accused the Cuban power of torturing the dissident José Daniel Ferrer, imprisoned in the east of the country, and demanded a “Proof of immediate life”. Historical dissident, José Daniel Ferrer, 54, was released within the framework of the agreement negotiated with the Vatican, before being incarcerated again after the revocation of his parole.
The State Department has also added a state-of-the -nce the UVANA in Havana’s recently-two floors to the list of presented places for the Americans “To prevent US dollars from financing the repression of the Cuban regime”. “While the Cuban people suffer from shortages of food, water, medicines and electricity, the diet dilapid the money”denounced Marco Rubio.
