President Joe Biden delivers remarks earlier than a gathering with Cuban American leaders in the Command Dining Room of the White Condominium in Washington, D.C., on Friday. Photo by Sarah Silbiger/UPI | License Photo
July 30 (UPI) — The Biden administration on Friday imposed fresh sanctions on aspects of the Cuban government for its “violent suppression” of latest protests.
The sanctions came amid a series of fresh protection measures President Joe Biden acknowledged his administration become endeavor.
“Earlier this month, Cubans took to the side road in a expose of the need of the oldsters of Cuba,” Biden acknowledged steady through a Command Dining Room assembly with Cuban American leaders.
“The regime answered with violence and repression, mass detentions, sham trials and folks disappearing who maintain spoken out. Cuban American citizens are hurting because their family are struggling. And it be, quite frankly, insupportable.”
The anti-government protests, which began earlier in the month, are the largest viewed in decades in the communist nation, as folks took to the streets in the capital of Havana and different areas as Cuba continued to endure from a deepening financial crisis and the pandemic.
The Treasury Department acknowledged the sanctions purpose the Cuban Revolutionary National Police, identified as the PNR, as effectively as its leaders, Director Oscar Callejas Valcárcel and Deputy Director Eddy Sierra Arias.
“We stand in solidarity with the oldsters of Cuba, and on the modern time’s designations end result in a further layer of restrictions on the PNR and its leaders,” Secretary of Command Antony Blinken acknowledged in an announcement.
“We’re making it obvious that anybody who provides Cuba’s brutal police power, the Special National Brigade, the Interior Ministry, or any different Cuban folks or entities designated below the Global Magnitsky program can also face sanctions risk of their very maintain. We are able to proceed to take care of action to advertise accountability for the Cuban government’s human rights abuses.”
