The Biden administration announced sanctions Wednesday on the general in charge of the Cuban military and a special-forces unit in response to a violent crackdown on anti-government protesters last week.
General Alvaro Lopez Miera, the head of Cuba’s Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (MINFAR), was added to a black list of “specially designated nationals” whose assets are frozen and cannot enter the United States.
The administration used the Global Magnitsky Act, which targets perpetrators of serious human-rights abuse and corruption worldwide, to also sanction the Ministry of Interior’s Special Forces Unit known as Boinas Negras, Spanish for Black Berets.
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