[News] Cuba says new US sanctions will not 'bend the will of the people'

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Cuba says new US sanctions will not 'bend the will of the people'
Al Mayadeen English
July 11, 2025
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Cuba’s foreign minister slams new US sanctions targeting President
Díaz-Canel and other top officials.

   - [image: Cuba says new US sanctions will not 'bend the will of the
   people'.]
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   Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel attends the 17th annual BRICS summit in
   Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 6, 2025.* (AP)*

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla condemned the latest round
of US sanctions targeting top Cuban officials, including President Miguel
Diaz-Canel, stressing that the move was another failed attempt by
Washington to undermine the country's sovereignty and revolutionary
leadership.

“The US is capable of imposing immigration sanctions against revolutionary
leaders and waging a prolonged and ruthless economic war against Cuba,”
Rodriguez said in a statement posted to X.

“But it lacks the capacity to bend the will of the people or their
leaders,” Rodriguez underlined.
US imposes visa restrictions on Cuban officials

The remarks came in response to an announcement by US Secretary of State
Marco Rubio on Friday. Rubio revealed that the State Department was
imposing visa restrictions on high-level Cuban government figures,
including Diaz-Canel, Defense Minister Alvaro Lopez Miera, and Interior
Minister Lazaro Alberto Alvarez Casas.

Rubio also declared that the US was adding Havana’s recently inaugurated
42-story Torre K hotel to its Cuba Restricted List, aiming to prevent
American dollars from reaching what Washington calls “the regime's
machinery of repression.”

“While the Cuban people suffer shortages of food, water, medicine, and
electricity, the regime lavishes money on its insiders,” Rubio posted on X.

*Read more: Trump reinstates hardline Cuba policy, reverses Biden-era
measures
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/trump-reinstates-hardline-cuba-policy--reverses-biden-era-me>*
US sanctions, shortages in Cuba

Cuba, however, has long maintained that these shortages are not the result
of domestic mismanagement, but rather the outcome of a brutal and illegal
US blockade
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/cubans-rally-in-havana-for-cuba-s-may-day-protest-against-us>—now
more than 60 years old—designed to strangle the island’s economy and
provoke unrest.

*Read more: Cuba accuses US envoy of violating diplomatic norms, issues
warning
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/cuba-accuses-us-envoy-of-violating-diplomatic-norms--issues>*
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