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<h1 class="reader-title">The United States Tightens Blockade
Against Cuba and Nicaragua</h1>
December 21, 2020</div>
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The US Treasury Department announced on Monday the
inclusion of several individuals and entities from Cuba
and Nicaragua in the so-called "blacklist," a set of
unilateral coercive measures promoted by Donald
Trump's administration against progressive
governments in Latin America and the Caribbean.</p>
<p>In Nicaragua, the measures were imposed against the
Vice President of the Supreme Court, Marvin Ramiro
Aguilar García, deputy Walmaro Antonio Gutiérrez Mercado
and police chief in the town of León, Fidel Jesús
Domínguez Álvarez.</p>
<p> The justification given is that these three people
support alleged political persecutions carried out by
the Sandinista government.</p>
<p>On the other hand, the list was "updated" for
Cuba, with three entities attached to the Revolutionary
Armed Forces (FAR), these being the Grupo de
Administración Empresarial S.A. (GAESA) and the
subsidiary firms Financiera Cimex S.A. and Kave Coffee
S.A. According to the United States, GAESA has used
business in Panama to avoid US sanctions. </p>
<p>2020 has been one of the most severe
years regarding unilateral coercive measures against
Cuba and Nicaragua, in addition to Venezuela. The
declared interest, although not successful, is to
achieve a change of political system in each of these
nations and to replace it with others more aligned with
the U.S. intentions in the region.</p>
<p>The governments of the affected countries have
repeatedly denounced that these conducts of the United
States authorities flagrantly violate international law,
particularly the principle of non-interference in the
internal affairs of other states.</p>
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