Overview
- The memorandum tasks Secretaries of State, Treasury, Commerce and Transportation with proposing within 30 days new measures to curb policies that benefit the Cuban regime and address its treatment of dissidents.
- It reinstates a ban on leisure travel to Cuba and mandates regular audits plus five years of record-keeping on all travel-related transactions to ensure enforcement.
- The directive renews prohibitions on financial dealings with military-controlled entities like GAESA, allowing exceptions only for transactions that support U.S. policy goals or aid Cuban civil society.
- The administration has revoked temporary legal protections for about 300,000 Cubans and imposed visa restrictions on Cuban and foreign officials involved in the island’s medical missions.
- Cuba’s foreign minister denounced the measures as criminal human rights violations while the U.S. reaffirmed its commitment to the economic embargo and opposition to UN calls for its lift.