Rubio defends new U.S. sanctions on Cuba, targeting military-run conglomerate GAESA

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U.S. Senator Marco Rubio defends the imposition of new sanctions on Cuba, which target GAESA, a military-run conglomerate associated with the Cuban Armed Forces. These sanctions are part of ongoing tensions regarding Cuba's military and economic policies.

Established in the 1990s under military control, GAESA was the Cuban Armed Forces' strategic response to the economic collapse that followed the Soviet Union's fall and the tightening of U.S. sanctions in place at the time