People protest over power outages in Havana on Wednesday. Five years after the historic social uprising of July 11, 2021, Cuba is experiencing daily protests. Photo by Ernesto Mastrascusa/EPA
July 13 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump's administration expanded its economic campaign against the Cuban government Monday by sanctioning the Ministry of Tourism and nine other state and paramilitary entities.
It is a move aimed at restricting the Cuban state's main sources of revenue and increasing pressure on organizations Washington accuses of participating in the repression of the population.
The State Department said the sanctions were imposed under an executive order signed in May that authorizes the U.S. government to block individuals and entities linked to repression in Cuba or to strategic sectors of the economy considered relevant to U.S. national security and foreign policy.
Today, @StateDept is designating ten entities to further the Trump Administration's comprehensive push to end the Cuban regime's malign activities, both in Cuba and across our hemisphere. These actions target interlocking pillars of that apparatus: state-owned entities that...— Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs (@WHAAsstSecty) July 13, 2026
