{"id":206630,"date":"2019-09-27T14:45:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T18:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=206630"},"modified":"2019-09-27T14:45:48","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T18:45:48","slug":"washington-sanctions-raul-castro-for-venezuelan-political-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba-usa\/washington-sanctions-raul-castro-for-venezuelan-political-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington sanctions Ra\u00fal Castro for Venezuelan political situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The U.S. government has applied sanctions to former Cuban President Ra\u00fal Castro, which include denying visas to him and his relatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The Department (of State) publicly designates (as sanctioned) Ra\u00fal Modesto Castro Ruz&#8230;for his involvement in gross violations of human rights,&#8221; U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/public-designation-of-raul-castro-due-to-involvement-in-gross-violations-of-human-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a statement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from NY.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecPompeo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SecPompeo<\/a> delivers remarks at a press availability in New York during the 74th session of the UN General Assembly. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UNGA74?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UNGA74<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vvVjjlhGU6\">pic.twitter.com\/vvVjjlhGU6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Department of State (@StateDept) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateDept\/status\/1177259320901132289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A short while before this, the State Department delivered a press availability, which OnCuba partially attended, where it was reported that the sanctions include the denial of visas to travel to the United States, except for United Nations meetings in New York, and his close relatives are included. Pompeo&#8217;s statement mentions by name the children of the former Cuban President, Alejandro, Deborah, Mariela and Nilsa Castro Espin and states that it is due to a compulsory paragraph (c) in law 7031, which was applied in this case, but, curiously, the measure does not affect either the current president, Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel, or Castro\u2019s former son-in-law, Luis Alberto Rodr\u00edguez L\u00f3pez Callejas, director of GAESA, a conglomerate under military administration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The U.S. secretary of state said that as the first secretary of the Cuban communist party, Ra\u00fal Castro oversees a system that arbitrarily arrests thousands of Cubans and currently holds more than 100 political prisoners. As the first secretary (sic) of the Cuban armed forces, Castro is responsible for the Cuban actions that prop Maduro&#8217;s old regime in Venezuela through violence, intimidation and repression. Members of the Cuban security forces, in collaboration with Venezuelan military and intelligence officers, are involved in gross violations of human rights and abuses in Venezuela, including torture. Castro is an accomplice in the subversion of Venezuelan democracy and unleashing the greatest humanitarian crisis in Latin America, forcing 15% of the Venezuelan population to flee the country and precipitate an unprecedented food and health crisis in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today we designate Raul Castro and his immediate family for his involvement in gross violations of human rights. The Cuban regime&#39;s disregard for human rights and use of violence to prop up the former Maduro regime are responsible for the ongoing crises in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cuba?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Cuba<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Venezuela?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Venezuela<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecPompeo\/status\/1177270409907060739?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The issue of freezing some financial or real estate assets that the Castros have in the United States was also addressed, but the participants came to the consensus that it is very difficult that they exist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sanctions of this type have already been applied to Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. In fact, the topic was discussed at the strategy press availability call and participants stressed that these sanctions also aim to draw attention to the situation in Cuba, taking into account the recent visit to the island of High Representative of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/tag\/union-europea-ue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">European Union (EU)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Immediately after the news came out, one of the leaders of the Venezuelan opposition, Julio Borges, boasted in a twit having attained this sanction after a meeting with President Trump whose date he has not specified. The new U.S. sanctions occur days after Washington decided to sanction <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/cuba-ee-uu\/eeuu-sanciona-a-empresas-de-chipre-y-panama-por-llevar-petroleo-a-cuba\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">two companies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, one from Cyprus and another from Panama, for transporting Venezuelan oil to Cuba.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Empezamos a ver los resultados de nuestro encuentro con el presidente <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> y l\u00edderes latinoamericanos. <\/p>\n<p>Pedimos presi\u00f3n contra Cuba y hoy se anuncian sanciones contra Ra\u00fal Castro, responsable del plan para sostener la dictadura criminal de <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NicolasMaduro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NicolasMaduro<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d1IYjfkNvy\">https:\/\/t.co\/d1IYjfkNvy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Julio Borges (@JulioBorges) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JulioBorges\/status\/1177268192659591170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The former Cuban president has only been twice to the United States. In 1959 he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/houston-texas\/houston\/article\/When-Fidel-Castro-came-to-Houston-to-eat-barbecue-11095072.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">traveled to Houston<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Texas, for a meeting with his brother, former President Fidel Castro, and in 2015 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.posta.com.mx\/internacional\/llega-raul-castro-nueva-york-para-historica-intervencion-ante-onu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he went to New York<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to participate in the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly, when he had the opportunity to meet with former U.S. President Bill Clinton, leaders of other countries and give a speech to the assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_206634\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-206634\" style=\"width: 829px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/raul-y-clinton-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-206634\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/raul-y-clinton-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"829\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/raul-y-clinton-1.jpg 829w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/raul-y-clinton-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/raul-y-clinton-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/raul-y-clinton-1-750x422.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-206634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meeting between former Presidents Bill Clinton and Ra\u00fal Castro in New York, 2015. Image: YouTube.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, two of his children have had some kind of involvement in bilateral relations. His son, Alejandro Castro Esp\u00edn, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-cuba-castro\/a-castro-son-rises-in-cuba-idUSKBN0OX1SU20150617\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">called the shots<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on behalf of Cuba in the negotiations that led to the reestablishment of diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level between the two countries. And his daughter, Mariela Castro, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/05\/29\/us\/new-york-mariela-castro\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has participated in events<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> related to her responsibility as director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. government has applied sanctions to former Cuban President Ra\u00fal Castro, which include denying visas to him and his relatives. &#8220;The Department (of State) publicly designates (as sanctioned) Ra\u00fal Modesto Castro Ruz&#8230;for his involvement in gross violations of human rights,&#8221; U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced in a statement from NY. .@SecPompeo delivers 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