The Trump administration imposed sanctions Thursday on Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, his wife, and three other key individuals in the latest escalation of pressure on the island’s communist leadership amid intensifying economic hardship.
The Treasury Department’s move builds on earlier executive measures and takes aim at key figures in the regime and associated entities. It freezes any assets those individuals or groups may hold in U.S. jurisdictions and prohibits Americans from conducting business with them.
Alejandro Castro Espín, son of former President Raúl Castro, and Castro Espín’s son are also included in the sanctions. They also apply to Cuba’s defense ministry, the Institute for Friendship with the Peoples, the official travel agency Amistur Cuba, and the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, according to public filings….