United States president Joe Biden has imposed further sanctions on Cuba targetting two leaders of the Cuban national police as well as the organisation as a whole, reports Ian Ellis-Jones.
Biden says these actions are “just the beginning” and the US “will continue to sanction individuals responsible for oppression of the Cuban people”.
The sanctions have been imposed by an executive order under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (the Global Magnitsky Act).
Since enacted in 2016, the Global Magnitsky Act authorises the US government to sanction any person or body it regards as human rights offenders, freeze their assets, and ban them from entering the US.
Essentially, the legislation enables the US government to punish any person or body and thus their country which the US finds distasteful.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez has labelled the sanctions as “baseless and slanderous”. He said the US should apply its sanctions legislation to itself for the “systematic repression and police brutality that took the lives of 1021 persons in 2020”.
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El presidente de Estados Unidos,
Joe Biden, demostró este jueves que, al menos de momento, está decidido por la mano dura en su política hacia
Cuba, al anunciar sanciones financieras, pero sobre todo simbólicas, al ministro de Defensa cubano y a una unidad antimotines por la “represión” de las recientes manifestaciones populares en la isla, y amenazó con nuevas medidas punitivas.
Joe Biden anuncia sanciones para el ministro de Defensa de Cuba y los Boinas Negras por la represión en las protestas lanacion.com.ar - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lanacion.com.ar Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.