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US imposes new sanctions on Cuba officials over human rights abuses Share Updated: 4:20 PM CDT Jul 22, 2021
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Bay Area activists take fight for Cuba to Washington as Biden imposes new sanctions
Evan Axelbank reports
TAMPA, Fla. - Alian Collazo came to Florida on a raft from Cuba at the age of eight. On Monday, he will voyage from Largo to Washington to exercise a right family still in Cuba don t have: The right to demonstrate. He will protest on behalf of the Cuban people. They have been yelling liberated which means freedom, he said. Abajo la dictatura. Down with the dictatorship.
On Thursday, the Biden administration announced new sanctions Thursday against a Cuban official and a government special brigade that it says was involved in human rights abuses during a government crackdown on protests on the island earlier this month.
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The Biden administration announced new sanctions Thursday against a Cuban official and a government special brigade that it says was involved in human rights abuses during a government crackdown on protests on the island earlier this month.
The Treasury Department s Office of Foreign Assets Control listed Alvaro Lopez Miera, a Cuban military and political leader, and the Brigada Especial Nacional del Ministerio del Interior, or Interior Ministry Special Brigade, as among those who will face the latest sanctions.
Treasury said in a statement that Lopez Miera “has played an integral role in the repression of ongoing protests in Cuba. Cuba’s Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, which is led to by Lopez Miera, and other Cuban government’s security services have attacked protesters and arrested or disappeared over 100 protesters in an attempt
Bay Area activists take fight for Cuba to Washington as Biden imposes new sanctions
By Evan Axelbank
Evan Axelbank reports
TAMPA, Fla. - Alian Collazo came to Florida on a raft from Cuba at the age of eight. On Monday, he will voyage from Largo to Washington to exercise a right family still in Cuba don t have: The right to demonstrate. He will protest on behalf of the Cuban people. They have been yelling liberated which means freedom, he said. Abajo la dictatura. Down with the dictatorship.
On Thursday, the Biden administration announced new sanctions Thursday against a Cuban official and a government special brigade that it says was involved in human rights abuses during a government crackdown on protests on the island earlier this month.
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