OFAC

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Image: Syrian children wait in line for food at a refugee camp near the Turkish border, in Azaz, Syria, last December (photo credit: AP/Manu Brabo)

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The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Relations (Minrex) denounced today the United States has hardened the blockade on the island over the last weeks, using for this action the Office for Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the Treasury Department.