US sanctions Cuban president, ‘regime-controlled’ luxury hotels
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US Sanctions Cuban President Over Alleged Human Rights Violations
Above: Miguel Díaz-Canel at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, on April 24, 2024. Image copyright: Gaby Oraa/Bloomberg/Getty Images
The Spin
Pro-establishment narrative
These sanctions are long overdue accountability for a brutal regime that has tortured and imprisoned its own people for demanding basic freedoms. The Cuban government's violent crackdown on peaceful protesters in 2021 cannot go unpunished, and restricting luxury hotel funding while Cubans suffer shortages shows the regime's true priorities.
Establishment-critical narrative
This represents another chapter in America's imperialist interference in Cuban sovereignty, exploiting economic hardships to destabilize the government. The U.S. has maintained an illegal blockade for decades while hypocritically lecturing about human rights, ignoring its own role in creating Cuba's economic crisis.