The generation that put Fidel Castro in power, cheered as private property was taken, threw rocks at the “undesirables” so they would leave the country, and called for the execution of thousands in the opposition, now has 1.3 million retirees living on pensions of less than 4,000 CUP (€10 a month).
Today, I am sanctioning Cuba’s state-owned energy company, Unión Cuba-Petróleo (CUPET), under President Trump’s EO 14404. Cuba’s Communist elites have weaponized energy as a tool of social control and kleptocratic profit.
For decades, the regime has stolen and hoarded available fuel — using it for the Castros’ private jet, the security services forces used to repress the Cuban people, to keep empty tourist hotels lit up, and to bus people in for fake protests and political stunts — all while the Cuban people have suffered blackouts and waited weeks to fill their cars.
President Trump wants a new future for the Cuban people with greater economic and political freedom and opportunity. Until then, we will continue to target the Communist regime’s ability to leverage its energy trade to further its corrupt agenda and violently repress the Cuban people.
@Reuters When Fidel Castro discovered capitalism required a set of beliefs and values he could not control, he turned to mass slaughter under the umbrella of communism https://t.co/2kY7t3m7xo
@Reuters When Fidel Castro discovered capitalism required a set of beliefs and values he could not control, he turned to mass slaughter under the umbrella of communism https://t.co/2kY7t3m7xo
The Neighborhood Is on the List
Washington's June 4 sanctions package went beyond generals and ministers — it designated Cuba's neighborhood surveillance committees and the president's own family members, drafting the organism itself into American law.
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