Rubio Escalates Cuba Pressure. A Sanctions Campaign Is Set To Target Every 'Escape Valve'
The campaign targets 40 entities and at least 38 people as Washington seeks to cut off Cuba's remaining workarounds, officials said.
- On Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced new sanctions targeting five Cuban companies and eight officials, including the military-run conglomerate GAESA, to disrupt Havana's military relationships and arms shipments.
- President Donald Trump's administration continues an aggressive pressure campaign utilizing a strict oil blockade and sanctions to force political change, as Cuba loses critical support from Venezuela, its former outside sponsor.
- The Central Intelligence Agency has increased operational resources on the island in recent months, adding analysts and counter-surveillance officers to penetrate Cuban elite circles and identify potential reformist leaders.
- Foreign businesses are increasingly withdrawing due to sanction risks, worsening severe shortages of fuel and food, while Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero attempts limited private-sector expansion to mitigate the crisis.
- Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed additional sanctions are expected in the coming months, aiming to eliminate all "escape valves" for Havana while maintaining pressure; the administration has no intention of easing the campaign.
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The U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, declared that with Washington’s unprecedented economic offensive against Havana “what we are trying to teach you is that there is no escape” and ruled out that the new measures of economic opening on the island can be successful to face the crisis caused by this blockade, because “every time they create a new mechanism to try to escape the rope, we simply shut it down,” he added in an interview with Axis.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is waging an unprecedented economic war against Cuba — and he wants to make sure that the communist leaders of the island know that the situation will get worse. "What we are trying to convey to them is that there is no way out," he said to Axios.
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