FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Measures on Cuba JULY 22, 2021 STATEMENTS AND RELEASES “The United States stands with the brave Cubans who have taken to the streets to oppose 62 years of repression under a communist regime.” President Biden The world watched on July 11 as tens of thousands of Cuban citizens marched in cities ...
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By U.S. Embassy Montevideo | 26 July, 2021 | Topics: News | Tags: cuba, President Joe Biden, Sanctions, The White House
Sanctioning Cuban Security Forces in Response to Violent Repression of Protests ANTONY J. BLINKEN, SECRETARY OF STATE PRESS STATEMENT JULY 22, 2021 Starting on July 11, tens of thousands of Cubans in dozens of cities and towns throughout their country took to the streets to peacefully demand respect for their fundamental freedoms and a better ...
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By U.S. Embassy Montevideo | 26 July, 2021 | Topics: Exclude, News | Tags: Antony J. Blinken, cuba, Sanctions, Secretary of State
Treasury Sanctions Cuban Minister of Defense and Special Forces Brigade for Abuses Against Protestors July 22, 2021 WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned one Cuban individual and one Cuban entity pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13818, which builds upon and implements the Global Magnitsky Human ...
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By U.S. Embassy Montevideo | 26 July, 2021 | Topics: Exclude, News | Tags: cuba, Sanctions, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Statement by President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. on Continuing Crackdown in Cuba STATEMENTS AND RELEASES JULY 22, 2021 I unequivocally condemn the mass detentions and sham trials that are unjustly sentencing to prison those who dared to speak out in an effort to intimidate and threaten the Cuban people into silence. The Cuban people have ...
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By U.S. Embassy Montevideo | 26 July, 2021 | Topics: News | Tags: cuba, President Joe Biden, Statement
Statement by President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. on Protests in Cuba The White House Briefing Room July 12, 2021 Statement and Releases We stand with the Cuban people and their clarion call for freedom and relief from the tragic grip of the pandemic and from the decades of repression and economic suffering to which they ...
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By U.S. Embassy Montevideo | 12 July, 2021 | Topics: News, President of the United States | Tags: cuba, freedom, President Joe Biden
U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Public Affairs Press Release: September 6, 2019 Treasury Issues Changes to Strengthen Cuba Sanctions Rules WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) amended the Cuban Assets Control Regulations (CACR) to further implement President Trump’s June 2017 National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM) ...
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By U.S. Embassy Montevideo | 9 September, 2019 | Topics: News | Tags: cuba, Sanctions, U.S. Department of the Treasury
U.S. Department of State Office of the Spokesperson June 4, 2019 United States Restricts Travel & Vessels to Cuba Today, the United States took strong action to prevent U.S. travel to Cuba from enriching the Cuban military, security, and intelligence services by announcing new restrictions on authorized travel and vessels to the island. Going forward, ...
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By U.S. Embassy Montevideo | 5 June, 2019 | Topics: News | Tags: cuba, Maduro, Restricts, travel, venezuela, Vessels
U.S Department of the Treasury Press Releases June 4, 2019 Treasury and Commerce Implement Changes to Cuba Sanctions Rules WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) unveiled amendments to the Cuban Assets Control Regulations (CACR) to further implement the President’s foreign policy on Cuba. These amendments complement changes ...
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By U.S. Embassy Montevideo | 5 June, 2019 | Topics: News | Tags: cuba, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Sanctions, U.S. Department of the Treasury
U.S Department of State Kimberly Breier Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs Bogota, Colombia May 13, 2019 Remarks on “A New Era in the Americas” at the 2019 Concordia Americas Summit I am pleased to be with you today and am impressed with how many business, political, and civil society leaders from the hemisphere ...
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By U.S. Embassy Montevideo | 15 May, 2019 | Topics: News | Tags: BANCORP, Chile, colombia, Concordia Americas Summit, cuba, Cucuta, Democracy, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Nicolás Maduro, PDVSA, Petronic, President Juan Guaido
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Office of the Spokesperson MEDIA NOTE May 10, 2019 The United States Sanctions Venezuela’s Defense and Security Sector Today, the United States took action against the former Maduro regime for increasing its intimidation of those supporting democracy in Venezuela, including members of the democratically elected National Assembly. Pursuant to E.O. 13850, ...
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By U.S. Embassy Montevideo | 13 May, 2019 | Topics: News | Tags: cuba, Nicolás Maduro, Oil, President Juan Guaido, russia, Sanctions, venezuela
The White House Office of the Press Secretary May 1, 2019 PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP STANDS FOR DEMOCRACY IN VENEZUELA “The people of Venezuela are standing for freedom and democracy, and the United States of America is standing right by their side.” – President Donald J. Trump RESTORING DEMOCRACY AND PROSPERITY: President Donald J. Trump ...
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By U.S. Embassy Montevideo | 3 May, 2019 | Topics: News | Tags: cuba, Democracy, Juan Guaido, National Assembly, Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump, russia, venezuela
The White House Office of the Press Secretary June 16, 2017 Remarks by President Trump on the Policy of the United States Towards Cuba Manuel Artime Theater Miami, Florida 1:31 P.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT: Thank you, everybody. Thank you very much. Great honor. And thank you to my truly great friend, Vice President Mike Pence — ...
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By U.S. Embassy Montevideo | 19 June, 2017 | Topics: Former U.S. Government Leaders, News | Tags: cuba, Former President Donald Trump, Statement
Ambassador Samantha Power U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations U.S. Mission to the United Nations New York City October 26, 2016 “For more than 50 years, the United States had a policy aimed at isolating the government of Cuba. For roughly half of those years, UN Member States have voted overwhelmingly for a General ...
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By U.S. Embassy Montevideo | 27 October, 2016 | Topics: News | Tags: cuba
President Obama said, “Today, I am proud to nominate Ambassador Jeffrey DeLaurentis to be the first U.S. Ambassador to Cuba in more than 50 years. Jeff’s leadership has been vital throughout the normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba, and the appointment of an ambassador is a common sense step forward toward a ...
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By U.S. Embassy Montevideo | 29 September, 2016 | Topics: News | Tags: cuba
President Obama: “Thank you. (Applause.) Muchas gracias. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. President Castro, the people of Cuba, thank you so much for the warm welcome that I have received, that my family have received, and that our delegation has received. It is an extraordinary honor to be here today. Before I ...
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By U.S. Embassy Montevideo | 23 March, 2016 | Topics: News | Tags: Barack Obama, castro, cuba
