The U.S. State Department has imposed visa restrictions on 9 Cuban dictatorship officials for their role in the violent response to peaceful protesters in Cuba.
The United States on Tuesday imposed visa restrictions against nine Cuban officials over their government’s crackdown on demonstrators earlier this month, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.
Blinken accused the officials, including high-ranking members of the Ministry of Interior and Revolutionary Armed Forces, of being “implicated in attempts to silence the voices of the Cuban people through repression and unjust detentions”.
“In the days preceding Nov. 15, the Cuban regime bullied activists with government-sponsored mobs, confined journalists and opposition members to their homes, revoked journalists’ credentials to suppress freedom of the press, and arbitrarily detained Cuban citizens who attempted to peacefully protest,” Blinken said in a statement.
“The designated individuals today took action to deny Cubans their rights to free expression and peaceful assembly.”
Communist Castro dictatorship elites have been enjoying vacations and shopping sprees in the U.S. for decades. This is not nearly enough and way past time it was done, but it’s better than nothing.