"efforts to improve internet connectivity" on the island, a senior administration official said Friday.
The sanctions, the Treasury Department said,"were made in connection with actions to suppress peaceful, pro-democratic protests." Friday's meeting takes place weeks after Cuba saw the largest protests in decades when thousands took to the streets to protest lack of food and medicine as the country undergoes a grave economic crisis aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic and US sanctions. Meanwhile, Democrats are also under pressure to take a tougher line against the Cuban regime amid inroads former President Donald Trump made in 2020 among Cuban-Americans in Florida.
Last week's sanctions came after Cuban-American groups and some members of Congress criticized the administration for not adopting a tough enough approach to the Cuban regime. The President has also directed his administration to examine remittances to Cuba, or the practice of Americans transferring money to their Cuban relatives, to determine ways for those residing in the US to send money to the country.
It means removing the thorn that threatens their national security. with all the cold war we have on right now
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