The US Treasury Department has sanctioned three Cuban officials for human rights abuses.
In its latest sanctions, the US Treasury Department has added two Cuban Defense Ministry officials and a Cuban Interior Ministry official to its list of sanctions against the Latin American country.
The United States has previously imposed sanctions on Cuba and two Cuban Interior Ministry officials and other institutions on the pretext of recent unrest in the country.
The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposes sanctions in accordance with Executive Instruction 13818 on the grounds of human rights violations, corruption, the July 11 protests, and the implementation of the Magnitsky Act.
Protests in Cuba began on Sunday, July 11, and thousands of Cubans took to the streets from Havana to Santiago to protest restrictions on the corona epidemic and slow vaccination rates.
Six decades of US sanctions and oppressive policies against Cuba are a fact that has made it difficult for the people of the Caribbean to secure their basic human rights.
US efforts to interfere in Cuba’s internal affairs come at a time when Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has called Washington’s interventionist efforts to destroy the country a failure.
Following his American counterpart Joe Biden’s remarks that Cuba is a “failed country,” Diaz-Connell said Washington had failed, despite spending billions of dollars to destroy Cuba.
The Magnitsky Act is an American law that was passed by the US Congress and implemented by President Barack Obama in December 2012 with his signature.