US ramps up Cuba sanctions and detentions of Americans returning from the island
The sanctions target nine state-owned companies and three ICAP leaders as Washington seeks to cut off funding to Havana and enforce travel rules.
- The Treasury and State departments announced Thursday new sanctions against 10 state-owned Cuban mining, metal, and construction companies, alongside leadership of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples .
- Portraying Cuba as a grave national security threat, the Trump Administration released a State Department report last month accusing Havana of sponsoring left-wing, anti-American activism for six decades.
- Sanctions target ICAP president Fernando González Llort, first vice president Noemí Ramona Rabaza Fernández, and North America director Leima Martínez Freire, while restricting firms importing heavy industrial products and automotive parts.
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents detained several Americans returning from Cuba last weekend after events marking Fidel Castro's birthday, seizing devices and warning of potential prosecution for sanctions violations.
- Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the institute sponsors "a vast subversive network in the United States," while the island faces economic free fall with fuel shortages causing blackouts and crippling tourism.
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The United States has imposed another package of sanctions on Cuban officials and companies, according to an announcement by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.The latest package of economic sanctions includes nine state-owned companies of the mining, metallurgy and construction sectors, as well as the Ministry of Construction and several officials affiliated with an international institute Cuban-based. In a statement, Rubio said the persons and …
Washington. President Donald Trump’s government yesterday imposed new sanctions aimed at leaders of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples (ICAP) for their alleged links with “Marxist subversive networks and corrupt economic practices,” and nine state enterprises he pointed to as “sustaining the repressive apparatus of the regime.”
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ORF.at NewsThe sanctions were imposed on the Ministry of Construction and State Enterprises, as well as on high-ranking representatives of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with Peoples
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