Mike Pompeo Quietly Steps Up Pressure Against Latin American "Troika of Tyranny" [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

The Department of State has imposed new sanctions aimed at depriving the Cuban government of tourist revenue as the Trump administration quietly steps up economic measures against left-wing, anti-U.S. governments in Latin America.

by Matthew Petti

The Department of State has imposed new sanctions aimed at depriving the Cuban government of tourist revenue as the Trump administration quietly steps up economic measures against left-wing, anti-U.S. governments in Latin America.

The administration is publicly focused on pursuing maximum pressure against Iran and great power competition with China. But its pressure campaign against Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua—a trio of left-wing Latin American governments—has also accelerated in recent weeks.

The sanctions against Cuba, announced on Wednesday, will ban American tourists from doing business with six different tourist attractions allegedly owned by the Cuban government, as well as the Cuban bank FINCIMEX.

“These seven subentities disproportionately benefit the Castro dictatorship, a regime which uses the profits from these businesses to oppress the Cuban people and to fund its interference in Venezuela, at the expense of the Cuban people or private enterprise in Cuba,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement.

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