US sanctions Cuban President
The United States announced its first sanctions on Friday against Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel for his role 'in the Cuban regime's brutality toward the Cuban people.' It is the latest in a series of measures by US President Donald Trump's administration to increase pressure on the Cuban government.
The US was restricting visas for the Cuban president and other high-ranking govt officials, secretary of state Marco Rubio said in an X post on the fourth anniversary of historic anti-govt protests in Cuba. Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez slammed the measures on X, saying the US cannot 'bend the will of its people or its leaders.'
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