Biden condemns crackdown on protesters, orders sanctions against head of Cuban military
Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald
President Joe Biden on Thursday condemned “the mass detentions and sham trials” of anti-government protesters in Cuba, and ordered sanctions against the general in charge of the Cuban military and a special forces unit involved in the violent crackdown.
“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 Cuban people have the same right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly as all people. The United States stands with the brave Cubans who have taken to the streets to oppose 62 years of repression under a communist regime.”