Entitled “New US sanctions worsen crisis in Cuba,” the publication warns that Washington has recently imposed new financial restrictions and travel authorization limits for citizens of that country.

The article states, “This additional pressure comes as the island faces a deep economic and energy crisis, with 25 percent inflation, food and fuel shortages, blackouts, and growing difficulties in the healthcare sector.”

It notes that the United States has toughened unilateral measures against the Caribbean nation “after the administration of President Donald Trump imposed a de facto oil blockade since January, in a context already marked by a severe economic and energy crisis for its 9.4 million inhabitants.”

The Holy See’s news portal reports that the latest sanctions, updated by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) under the US Department of the Treasury, prohibit any indirect financial transactions with Cuban entities previously subject to sanctions.

Other measures include revoking the authorization allowing US banks “to open and maintain accounts in the name of a Cuban citizen, an independent entrepreneur in the private sector,” which had been granted by the previous administration of Joe Biden.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez condemned on September 30 on X the new “wave of blockade measures against the Cuban people,” imposed by the US government.

Rodriguez warns on that platform that these new measures aim to hinder the ongoing economic transformation.

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