Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel attends a plenary session of the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 7, 2025. Mauro Pimentel/AFP via Getty Images
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio restricted visas for Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez and his immediate family on Friday, the fourth anniversary of the July 11, 2021, protests on the island in which Cubans called for freedom for their people from communist rule.
Referred to by Cubans as “11J,” the day was the largest mass protest Cuba had seen since the communists took power in 1959.
Alicia Márquez
Breaking News Reporter
