New US sanctions target Cuban international medical missions
An elderly woman walks in a street of Havana, on June 3, 2025
New U.S. sanctions announced on July 23 targeted Cuba’s decades-old international medical missions program, which sends doctors to dozens of countries and earns the island billions in revenue.
The sanctions targeted government enterprises associated with the program as well as Cuban Health Minister Jose Angel Portal Miranda.
The move is the latest by U.S. President Donald Trump’s government to tighten a stranglehold on the communist-run island in recent months.
