FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to reporters on the tarmac before boarding Air Force One to return to Washington from Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in Hebron, Kentucky, U.S., July 21, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday that new U.S. sanctions on Cuba target those responsible for a crackdown on protesters and that they are only the first step in the American response.
"I unequivocally condemn the mass detentions and sham trials that are unjustly sentencing to prison those who dared to speak out in an effort to intimidate and threaten the Cuban people into silence," Biden said in a statement.
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