US Levies Sanctions Against Cuba's State-Owned Oil and Gas Company

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The US has imposed sanctions on Cuba's state-owned oil and gas company, Union Cuba-Petroleo, targeting its assets and barring US entities from doing business with it, escalating pressure on Cuba's communist government amid an ongoing oil blockade.

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