US announces more sanctions against Cuban police after protests on island – 07/30/2021 – world EditorJuly 30, 2021 4 In another step forward in the US embargo on Cuba, the government of Joe Biden announced on Friday (30) a new set of sanctions. This time, the Revolutionary National Police, subordinate to the Cuban Interior Ministry, and two of its leaders are in the crosshairs. The US Treasury Department has justified that the measure is a response to police repression used in acts that swept through the streets of the Caribbean island on the 11th – considered the most important in nearly three decades. “Police officers were photographed confronting and arresting protesters in Havana [a capital], including the movement of mothers of the “11 de Julho”, a group founded to organize the families of prisoners and missing, “Treasury said in a statement.