The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, approved on Friday the reinstatement of the restricted list of Cuba, a “blacklist” that veto certain transactions with companies under the control of -o that act for or on behalf of- Cuban military, intelligence or security services that the chancellor crossed out repressive. His statement pointed out that he returns to that list “to deny resources to the same branches of the Cuban regime that oppress and monitor directly to the Cuban people while controlling large sectors of the country’s economy.”
Rubio stressed that in addition to putting the companies that were on that list until the last week of the administration of the Democrat Joe Biden (2021-2025), Orbit adds, “a remittance processing company that operates for or on behalf of the Cuban military. ” “The State Department promotes the accountability of the Cuban regime to oppress its people and rejects the evil interference of Cuba in the Americas and worldwide,” said his note.
Republican legislator Mario Díaz-Balart, of Cuban origin, considered in X that with the reinstatement and expansion of that list the new executive fulfills “his promise to support the freedom of the Cuban people, denying resources to their oppressors while promoting the national security of USA”.
Rubio’s message also expressed Washington’s support for “human rights and fundamental freedoms of the Cuban people” and demanded “the liberation of all political prisoners unjustly arrested. ” We are firm in our commitment to the Cuban people and promote accountability for the actions of the Cuban regime, “he said.
Rubio recalled that on January 20, in the early hours of the second term of Donald Trump, the latter revoked his predecessor’s decision to take Cuba out of the American list of terrorism promoting states. “The Cuban regime has long supported acts of international terrorism. We demand that you end your support for terrorism and stop providing food, housing and medical attention to murderers, manufacturers of foreign bombs and kidnappers, while Cubans go hungry And they lack access to basic medicines, “said the representative of American diplomacy.
The Trump administration added that it is also committed to US citizens “to have the ability to establish private actions related to properties subject to traffic confiscated by the Cuban regime.”
The Office for Latin America of the State Department was in turn in X that in these first two weeks of mandate they have revoked what in their opinion are last minute and wrong changes in the policies towards Cuba carried out by the previous government.
