The Biden administration announced a new round of sanctions against the Cuban government for its violent crackdown on demonstrators.
The Biden administration on Thursday announced a new round of sanctions against the besieged Cuban government for itson demonstrators, blacklisting the defense minister and a paramilitary police force.
“I unequivocally condemn the mass detentions and sham trials that are unjustly sentencing to prison those who dared to speak out in an effort to intimidate and threaten the Cuban people into silence,” Biden said in a statement. “The United States stands with the brave Cubans who have taken to the streets to oppose 62 years of repression under a communist regime.
Sen. Marco Rubio , a prominent hawk on Cuba, said the key was to erode confidence within Cuba’s security forces. Price acknowledged a certain symbolic value to ramping up pressure on the Cuban government. “There is an important messaging element,” he said.Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez responded angrily to the new sanctions, saying that the U.S. should apply the same criteria and punishment to itself for the “acts of daily repression and police brutality” that killed numerous American citizens last year.
Biden and his advisors, early in his administration, said they would begin to relax some of the harsh measuresThe Biden administration said it would revive travel between the U.S. and Cuba and make it easier for Cuban Americans to send remittances to relatives. That has not yet happened.
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