Communist Cuba is a corrupt failed state and a persistent threat to U.S. national security, sitting less than 100 miles from American shores. While ordinary Cubans endure blackouts, food shortages, and brutality, regime elites continue to hoard the island’s resources for themselves and Cuba’s repressive security apparatus. The United States will keep exposing and sanctioning those who sustain this system. Today, I'm sanctioning a further 11 entities and individuals involved in the development of Cuba’s military capabilities and the exploitation of its mining sector. President Trump's E.O. 14404 for propping up the Cuban regime's exploitation of the island's nickel wealth and its development of military capabilities.