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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Cuba says new US sanctions will not 'bend the will of the people'</h1>
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<div class="gmail-reader-estimated-time">July 11, 2025</div>
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<div class="gmail-moz-reader-content gmail-reader-show-element"><div id="gmail-readability-page-1" class="gmail-page"><p>Cuba\u2019s foreign minister slams new US sanctions targeting President Díaz-Canel and other top officials.</p><div><ul id="gmail-content-slick-0"><div aria-hidden="false"><li>
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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.<em> (AP)</em>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>\u201cThe US is capable of imposing immigration sanctions against
revolutionary leaders and waging a prolonged and ruthless economic war
against Cuba,\u201d Rodriguez said in a statement posted to X.</p>
<p>\u201cBut it lacks the capacity to bend the will of the people or their leaders,\u201d Rodriguez underlined.</p>
<h2>US imposes visa restrictions on Cuban officials</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Rubio also declared that the US was adding Havana\u2019s recently
inaugurated 42-story Torre K hotel to its Cuba Restricted List, aiming
to prevent American dollars from reaching what Washington calls \u201cthe
regime's machinery of repression.\u201d</p>
<p>\u201cWhile the Cuban people suffer shortages of food, water, medicine,
and electricity, the regime lavishes money on its insiders,\u201d Rubio
posted on X.</p>
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<h2>US sanctions, shortages in Cuba</h2>
<p>Cuba, however, has long maintained that these shortages are not the
result of domestic mismanagement, but rather the outcome of a <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/cubans-rally-in-havana-for-cuba-s-may-day-protest-against-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">brutal and illegal US blockade</a>\u2014now more than 60 years old\u2014designed to strangle the island\u2019s economy and provoke unrest.</p>
<p><strong>Read more: <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/cuba-accuses-us-envoy-of-violating-diplomatic-norms--issues" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cuba accuses US envoy of violating diplomatic norms, issues warning</a></strong></p></div></div></div>
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