US continues to squeeze Cuban economy with new round of sanctions
News Source : Al Jazeera English
News Summary
- The US State Department said on Thursday that it was sanctioning several Cuban companies and 31-year-old Fidel Ernesto Castro.
- “Cuba’s Communist regime elites preside over a failed state where ordinary Cubans go hungry,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a social media post on Thursday.
- Since January, President Donald Trump has undertaken a heightened campaign to weaken Cuba's government, in an effort to spur regime change.
- Part of that campaign has been a series of escalating sanctions, as well as a de facto fuel blockade.
The United States has announced a new series of economic sanctions targeting Cuba, its latest step in a campaign to squeeze the islands already fragile economy.
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