see url:
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/22/politics/biden-cuba-sanctions/index.html
see full story...Poor Ole Cuba...at a crossroads...If the people of Cuba
would only do as they are told by the USG and introduce a nice
democratic, non racist non sexist, peace loving state like wot the USA
has...All sanctions would be lifted and everything would be hunkey dorey
again, for the past mafia Cuban regime to take over and run US Casinos
free of tax...They are caught between the evils of two
lessers...Sanctions and poverty if they stay as they are and poverty and
fascism if they go with the USG...What is the middle road for them?
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The Biden administration sanctioned a key Cuban official and a
government special forces unit known as the Boinas Negras for human
rights abuses in the wake of historic protests on the island.
President Joe Biden said in a statement that Thursday's actions were
"just the beginning--the United States will continue to sanction
individuals responsible for oppression of the Cuban people."
"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," he said.
"Today, my Administration is imposing new sanctions targeting elements
of the Cuban regime responsible for this crackdown—the head of the Cuban
military and the division of the Cuban Ministry of the Interior driving
the crackdown—to hold them accountable for their actions."
The sanctions mark the administration's first significant response to
the protests on the island and come after Cuban-American groups and some
members of Congress criticized the administration for not adopting a
tough enough approach to the Cuban regime.
The Treasury Department announced in a press release that it was
designating Alvaro Lopez Miera, who leads Cuba's Ministry of the
Revolutionary Armed Forces, as well as the National Special Brigade of
the Ministry of the Interior -- known locally as the Boinas Negras or
the "black berets" -- "in connection with the repression of peaceful,
pro-democratic protests in Cuba that began on July 11."
"The Cuban people are protesting for the fundamental and universal
rights they deserve from their government," Treasury Secretary Janet
Yellen said in a statement. "Treasury will continue to enforce its
Cuba-related sanctions, including those imposed today, to support the
people of Cuba in their quest for democracy and relief from the Cuban
regime."
The Boinas Negras are an elite Cuban special forces unit that the
government has deployed to crack down on protesters following the
widespread anti-government demonstrations on the communist island.
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