WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department announced Thursday it has placed financial sanctions on Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel and four additional officials, according to documents posted on the department’s website.
Among those targeted by the sanctions is Alejandro Castro Espín, whose father is former President Raúl Castro.
The financial penalties follow President Donald Trump’s signing of an executive order that broadened sanctions against the Caribbean nation.
These latest sanctions increase economic pressure on Cuban leadership, though this marks just another instance in a long history of the United States targeting foreign leaders and their family members with similar measures.
Previous sanctions have targeted leaders including former Sudanese President Omar Bashir and former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in the early 2000s, as well as more recent penalties against former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his spouse.
