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The U.S. connected Thursday (June 4, 2026) imposed sanctions on Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and immoderate affiliated radical and entities, the U.S. Treasury Department’s website showed.
The Cuban authorities did not instantly respond to a petition for remark connected the sanctions, which besides targeted 4 different people and 5 entities, including the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba.
Diaz-Canel, 60, has served arsenic President of the Caribbean state since taking implicit from Raul Castro, the member of Cuba’s erstwhile person Fidel Castro, successful 2018.
Thursday’s enactment against Diaz-Canel is the latest by Washington to intensify unit on the island’s communist leaders.
The sanctions were announced arsenic U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters that the U.S. wanted Cuba “to beryllium a nicely tally country.”
Last month, the U.S. authorities imposed sanctions connected 11 Cuban officials, including the country’s communications minister, respective subject leaders and its main quality agency.
The U.S. besides charged Raul Castro with execution for his alleged engagement in a 1996 incidental successful which Cuban jets changeable down planes operated by a radical of Cuban exiles.
