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The United States will impose sanctions on Cuban officials on Thursday that it considers directly involved in human rights abuses during the protests on July 11 in Cuba, a senior US official told Efe.

The sanctions are part of the response of the Government of US President

Joe Biden

to the situation on the island, which also includes possible measures to try to improve Internet access in Cuba and

a study of the possibility of authorizing the sending again. of remittances to the country

.

A senior US official, who requested anonymity, assured Efe that

the announcement of the sanctions will arrive this Thursday

, eleven days after the unprecedented anti-government protests on the island.

A legislative source, familiar with the conversations within the Administration, also confirmed to Efe that

Biden will impose a new wave of "selective" sanctions

against Cuban government officials, in an attempt to support the protests of the Cuban people.

The sanctions are expected to affect a small number of Cuban Interior Ministry officials and their military.

Last Monday, the Biden administration revealed that the Treasury Department was

"exploring to designate Cuban officials responsible for violence

, repression and human rights violations against peaceful protesters" in Cuba.

"We will focus on applying strong sanctions to the official regime responsible for the brutal repression," the acting Assistant Secretary of State for Latin America,

Julie Chung

,

insisted on Wednesday

in a tweet.

Biden has also ordered his team to

study reauthorizing the sending of remittances to Cuba,

prohibited since last November, as long as it can be guaranteed that the money "reaches the hands of the Cuban people directly," a US official explained to Efe.

Another of the measures that the Biden government announced on Monday that are under study is the

transfer of more personnel to the US embassy in Havana

with the aim of "facilitating diplomatic, consular and civil society participation" and also for reasons of security".

The president also ordered his government to

work with the private sector and Congress to make the internet "more accessible" in Cuba

, after the blackout of access on mobile phones after the protests.

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