{"id":955,"date":"2025-07-01T15:20:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T15:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/logicalware.net\/?p=955"},"modified":"2025-07-01T19:18:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:18:38","slug":"trump-eyes-tougher-sanctions-on-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/logicalware.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/01\/trump-eyes-tougher-sanctions-on-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump eyes tougher sanctions on Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"
President Trump’s administration is moving to bolster<\/a> his hard-line policies on Cuba<\/a> in the coming weeks, reinforcing the president’s icy attitude<\/a> toward the leaders of the Caribbean island nation that’s been under a far-reaching U.S. economic embargo for decades.<\/p>\n Trump instructed his top Cabinet officials in a memo the White House released Monday<\/a> to “adjust regulations” in the next 30 days to curb policies that encouraged American tourism and financial transactions with Cuba \u2014 rolling back the softened approach<\/a> taken under former President Biden’s administration.<\/p>\n “After Joe Biden gutted President Trump\u2019s tough, first-term Cuba policies, this President is delivering on his campaign promise to stand with the Cuban people and hold the Communist regime accountable,” White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said in a Tuesday statement to The Hill.<\/p>\n “The Cuban government has long suppressed their citizens’ aspirations for freedom and prosperity, detained dissidents, and held political prisoners in inhumane conditions,” she continued.<\/p>\n Kelly added, “President Trump will always fight for a better quality of life for people around the world.”<\/p>\n Biden, in his final week in office, removed Cuba from the state sponsor<\/a> of terrorism list \u2014reversing the designation from Trump’s first term as president.<\/p>\n Trump outlined key policy objectives in this week’s memo, including stricter enforcement of a ban on tourism to Cuba and prohibiting “economic practices that disproportionately benefit the Cuban government or its military, intelligence, or security agencies or personnel at the expense of the Cuban people.”<\/p>\n He also directed Cabinet officials to publicly oppose measures that call for an end to the U.S.’s economic embargo on Cuba, including through United Nations resolutions and at international forums.<\/p>\n “My Administration\u2019s policy will be guided by the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States, as well as solidarity with the Cuban people,” Trump wrote. “I will seek to promote a stable, prosperous, and free country for the Cuban people.”<\/p>\n “To that end, we must channel funds toward the Cuban people and away from a regime that has failed to meet the most basic requirements of a free and just society,” he added.<\/p>\n