Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel. File
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The U.S. on Thursday (June 4, 2026) imposed sanctions on Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and a few affiliated individuals and entities, the U.S. Treasury Division’s web site confirmed.
The Cuban authorities didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon the sanctions, which additionally focused 4 different individuals and 5 entities, together with the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba.
Diaz-Canel, 60, has served as President of the Caribbean nation since taking up from Raul Castro, the brother of Cuba’s former chief Fidel Castro, in 2018.
Thursday’s motion in opposition to Diaz-Canel is the newest by Washington to accentuate strain on the island’s communist leaders.
The sanctions have been introduced as U.S. President Donald Trump instructed reporters that the U.S. needed Cuba “to be a properly run nation.”
Final month, the U.S. authorities imposed sanctions on 11 Cuban officers, together with the nation’s communications minister, a number of army leaders and its essential intelligence company.
The U.S. additionally charged Raul Castro with homicide for his alleged involvement in a 1996 incident during which Cuban jets shot down planes operated by a gaggle of Cuban exiles.
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