Bangladesh, July 12 -- In a renewed show of pressure against the Cuban government, the United States has imposed visa restrictions on Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, alongside Defense Minister Alvaro Lopez Miera and Interior Minister Lazaro Alberto Alvarez Casas. The sanctions, announced by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio via social media platform X on July 12, mark the latest move in Washingtons long-standing policy of confronting Cuba over alleged human rights abuses, with specific reference to the governments response to mass protests in 2021.

Rubio, a vocal critic of the Cuban Communist Party, emphasized the connection between the sanctions and the Cuban governments violent crackdown on demonstrators during the unprecedented unr...