The U.S. government has sanctioned five more Cuban companies and organizations as it continues to ramp up pressure on the communist regime.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday designated five new entities that he said generate revenue for the Cuban regime and its malign activities at home and abroad, including three entities associated with the Grupo de Administración Empresarial S.A. (GAESA) and a member of the extended Castro family.
Rubio wrote in a post on X that “the situation in Cuba is devolving” due to the regime’s moves to “prioritize its own total control over the freedom, opportunity and basic wellbeing of the Cuban people” in the midst of economic hardship and energy shortages that have plagued the island in recent months….