Administration officials and Cuba experts say the unprecedented protests in Cuba have prompted a change in Biden's strategy and rhetoric on Cuba.
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"This is just the beginning – the United States will continue to sanction individuals responsible for oppression of the Cuban people," Biden said in a statement Thursday. minister of Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces, and a special brigade in the government's intelligence ministry. Ryan C. Berg, a senior fellow in the Americas program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the designations “signal the important role that Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior plays in the state’s violent repression of the Cuban people.”“The sanctions architecture built around Cuba makes these designations entirely redundant,” he said.
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