US slaps new sanctions on Cuba over human rights, Venezuela 

The U.S. Commerce Division introduced Friday it’s going to impose new sanctions on Cuba over its human rights report and its help of the Venezuelan authorities.

The Commerce Division took direct goal at Cuba‡s very important tourism trade by limiting airways‡ potential to lease aircrafts.

In an announcement, the division mentioned it’s going to revoke current licenses for plane leases to Cuban state-owned airways and deny future purposes for plane leases. Cuba's cash-poor carriers depend upon aircrafts rented from leasing firms or different airways, Reuters reported.

Moreover the U.S. will increase sanctions to incorporate extra overseas items which are product of U.S. content material.

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“This motion by the Commerce Division sends one other clear message to the Cuban regime – that they have to instantly stop their damaging conduct at dwelling and overseas,” Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross mentioned within the assertion.

Cuban International Minister Bruno Rodriguez responded on Twitter, denouncing the transfer as “extra financial blockade measures evidencing ethical chapter of an internationally remoted coverage promoted by a corrupted authorities.”

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In June, President Trump introduced a ban on U.S. cruise ship stopovers, forcing Havana to chop its 2021 tourism goal by 15 p.c.

Cuba, together with China and Russia, acknowledges contested Venezuelan chief Nicolas Maduro, whereas the U.S. and greater than 50 different international locations don’t.

Below Maduro‡s regime, Venezuela has seen unprecedented financial turmoil that has pressured greater than 4 million to flee, based on the United Nations.

The Obama administration restored diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba in 2015, however the Trump administration has been ramping up strain in current months on Cuba‡s communist occasion chief, Raul Castro, for propping up the Venezuelan regime.

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“The Cuban regime's disregard for human rights and use of violence to prop up the previous Maduro regime are liable for the continuing crises in Cuba and Venezuela,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo mentioned final month because the administration imposed journey sanctions on the Castro household. The U.S. authorities has mentioned round 20,000 Cuban troops and brokers have been working in Venezuela to guard Maduro‡s authorities.

“Castro is complicit in undermining Venezuela‡s democracy and triggering the hemisphere‡s largest humanitarian disaster, forcing 15 p.c of the Venezuelan inhabitants to flee the nation and precipitating a meals scarcity and well being disaster of unprecedented scale on this area,” Pompeo mentioned.

Trump in a speech on the United Nations final month referred to as the Venezuelan chief a “Cuban puppet.”

“The dictator Maduro is a Cuban puppet, protected by Cuban bodyguards, hiding from his personal folks, whereas Cubans plunder Venezuela‡s oil wealth to maintain its personal corrupt communist rule,” Trump mentioned.