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Trump cracks down on Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela

By GISELA SALOMON, DEB
RIECHMANN and MATTHEW
LEE
Associated Press
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) —
The Trump administration
on Wednesday intensified
its crackdown on Cuba, Ni-
caragua and Venezuela,
rolling back Obama ad-
ministration policy and an-
nouncing new restrictions
and sanctions against the
three countries whose lead-
ers national security adviser
John Bolton dubbed the
“three stooges of social-
ism.”
“The troika of tyranny —
Cuba, Venezuela and Ni-
caragua — is beginning to
crumble,” Bolton said in a
hard-hitting speech near This combination of images shows, from left, Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel, Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega and
Miami on the 58th anniver- Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro.
sary of the United States’ Associated Press
failed Bay of Pigs invasion is at a moment of severe string of bad years in other their relatives in Cuba. The to Cuba from the United
of the island, an attempt to economic weakness as it key economic sectors. Obama administration States amounted to $3 bil-
overthrow the Cuban gov- struggles to find cash to im- Bolton announced a new had lifted limits on remit- lion in 2016, according to
ernment. port basic food and other cap on the amount of tances, but the new limit the State Department.
The measures seem likely to supplies following a drop in money that families in the will be $1,000 per person
hit hardest in Cuba, which aid from Venezuela and a United States can send per quarter. Remittances Continued on Page 3