United States fines Cuban bank for helping to finance La Habana’s injury in Venezuela

Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State of the United States (Saul Loeb / Pool via REUTERS / Archive)
Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State of the United States (Saul Loeb / Pool via REUTERS / Archive)

The United States has added this state to a Cuban bank to its list of sanctioned entities, alleging that it “disproportionately benefits” the Icelandic and military militias help finance the “injury” of La Habana in Venezuela.

The Department of State announced in a statement the addition of Banco Financiero Internacional SA (BFI) to Cuba’s Restricted List, which generally prohibits direct financial transactions with listed entities.

The new sanction was announced in a statement by the Secretary of State of the EU, Mike Pompeo, and noted in an escalation of the presidency to the island antes that the presidential candidate of state, Donald Trump, gives the power on January 20 to the elected mandate, of Democrat Joe Biden.

Moreover, as has been the case with the most recent sanctions, the announcement was made in a closed window for the Cuban political calendar, in this case the anniversary 62 of the triumph of the revolution led by Fidel Castro.

The medium has an effective “aene principles”, a vez that the Department of Public Health in its web the updated version of the Restricted List of Cuba, Pompeo explained, does not specify a specific check.

Cubans hoping to enter a bank in La Habana (REUTERS / Stringer)
Cubans hoping to enter a bank in La Habana (REUTERS / Stringer)

The Cuban regime regrets on its part the media and accuses Washington of wanting to reform the “economic circle” on the island.

“Release of the new punitive media of the EEU State Department to recruit the blockade in Cuba”, posted on Twitter the Cuban Minister of Exteriors, Bruno Rodríguez.

In the same publication, the cancellation states that “the inclusion of entities in its lists purporting to reform an economic circle that failed to destroy the Cuban Revolution in 62 years”.

El Gobierno de Trump is intended elevate to the maximum the power of the Gaesa military conglomerate, which manages the economic joys of Cuba, as well as tourism, commerce and petroleum, and also the BFI since 2016.

Según Pompeo, from the words Gaesa “Use the BFI keyboard in the exchange system to promote preferential access to the military and state-owned companies, secure sales exchange funds and finance projects controlled by the Government that enforce the regime.”

In the image, the Cuban president, Miguel Díaz-Canel (EFE / Luong Thai Linh / Archive)
In the image, the Cuban president, Miguel Díaz-Canel (EFE / Luong Thai Linh / Archive)

The sanctions that Trump has imposed on his four years in power over Cuba’s strategic sectors have deterred the Cuban economy, which has overcome its crisis and three decades.

In the minutes of three weeks that they come in the power, Trump in Pompeo evaluates proposes one last review in Cuba and turns it into the list of Patrons of Terrorism, of what the island salió in 2015 during the deal with the former Gobierno of Barack Obama.

The Habana has given the alert signal that it is possible that the Cuban president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, will be awarded the “unilateral, absurd, hypocritical and unjust maneuver”, in order to continue to accuse Gobierno of striving to succeed terrorist acts against Cuba ”.

The Díaz-Canel demonstrations refer to the various attacks (from the air traffic control to the assigned plans and conductors) revised by anticastric groups in the last six decades, mainly during the Guerra Fría

With AFP information on EFE

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