President Trump‘s administration today imposed sanctions on Cuban Interior Minister Lazaro Alberto Alvarez Casas for “serious human rights violations.
The Cuban regime has a long history of human rights violations, and the United States will continue to use all available means to address serious human rights situations in Cuba and around the world,” said Steven Mnuchin, the current U.S. Treasury Secretary, in a statement.
The statement from the U.S. Treasury Department said that the Cuban Ministry of the Interior, which is also under sanctions, has specialized agencies responsible for monitoring political activities and that Cuban police support these security agencies by arresting associates involved in cases.
The statement referred to the 2019 arrest of Cuban dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer, who is being held in a prison run by the Cuban Interior Ministry, where “he informed that he was beaten, tortured and held in solitary confinement.
Casas and the Cuban Interior Ministry will no longer have access to the U.S. financial system, and all their assets in the U.S. will be frozen.
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