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Online portal used to send US deliveries to Cuba stops taking orders
AP News • • business
Key Points:
- Envioscuba.com, a key platform used by Cubans in the U.S. to send money, food, and clothing to relatives in Cuba, has ceased accepting new orders amid escalating U.S. sanctions on Cuba.
- The Trump administration's sanctions target Cuba’s state-owned oil and gas company, President Miguel Diaz-Canel, and GAESA, a military-run conglomerate controlling many Cuban businesses.
- These sanctions are worsening hardships for ordinary Cubans, who face shortages of food, medicine, and electricity, while relying on aid from family in the U.S. through platforms like envioscuba.com.
- Envioscuba.com and similar platforms typically sell and deliver goods stored in GAESA warehouses on the island, and experts predict more such services will shut down to avoid sanctions.
- U.S. sanctions threaten to freeze assets of foreign companies linked to Cuba and restrict travel by their personnel, effectively cutting off their access to the U.S. financial system.
