The Havana-The authorities of the United States introduced Friday that Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and different excessive officers for human rights violations was sanctioning and limiting entry to visas on the anniversary of the biggest protests of the island in current a long time.
The United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared on the social media platform X that the State Department would even have imported visa restrictions on Cuban judicial and jail officers “accountable or accomplices of unjust detention and torture of the demonstrators of July 2021”.
The protests, which weren’t guided by an opposition group, developed on 11 and 12 July 2021, attracting consideration to the depths of the Economic Crisis of Cuba.
“The United States will proceed to defend the human rights and elementary freedoms of the individuals of Cuba and won’t make clear the dictatorial regimes, dictatorial regimes are welcome to our hemisphere,” mentioned Rubio within the declaration.
The Trump administration took a hardest line towards the Cuba authorities than the Biden administration.
In addition to Díaz-Canel, the United States sanctioned the Cuban protection Álvaro López Miera and the inside minister Lázaro Álvarez Casas.
Shortly after the announcement, Johana Tablada, deputy director of the United States Department within the Ministry of Cuban Foreign Affairs, lashed into Rubio, calling him a “defender of genocide, prisons and mass deportations”.
The uncommon protests of 2021 passed off after repeated blackouts in Havana and in different cities. A person died and a few marches ended vandalism.
The teams in help of the federal government responded along with the authorities to repress the protests. Human rights teams estimated that there have been greater than 1,000 arrests, however the authorities has not offered official knowledge.
At the time, the Cuban authorities mentioned that it was the results of a media marketing campaign within the United States and a long time of US sanctions.
In 2022, the Cuban ministries mentioned that about 790 individuals had been designed for acts associated to protests starting from dysfunction to sabotage and vandalism.
The ADVOCAcy 11J group, whose title alludes to the protests, mentioned that on the finish of final yr there have been 554 individuals who served phrases referring to protests, however some got the conditional launch in January after an attraction by Pope Francis.
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