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The US administration is increasing pressure on Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. White House national security adviser John Bolton announced that the presidential administration would limit non-family travel to Cuba and limit remittances from the United States to Cuba, Politico reported.

The United States will impose sanctions on five agencies and officials associated with the military and intelligence services of Cuba, including the Cuban military-owned airline Aerogaviota.

Bolton said the US Treasury will impose sanctions on the Central Bank of Venezuela as a "strong warning to all external actors in Venezuela including Russia." Bolton also announced sanctions against Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega. Bolton said the US will tighten sanctions against the Nicaraguan Bancorp bank. In addition, they will impose sanctions against the vice-president of Rosario Murillo, as well as Laureano Ortega, one of the sons of Daniel Ortega. Bolton says the younger Ortega is being “groomed as a successor” to the current president and Bolton’s is accusing the son of being involved in “vast corruption under the guise of leading Nicaragua’s investment agency.”

Bolton said the "three stooges" of socialism -- Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, Miguel Díaz-Canel in Cuba and Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua -- are on their way down. Bolton said under the new policy the U.S. will help free Venezuela first, so that what is left of socialism in Cuba and Nicaragua will tumble. 

"We must all reject the forces of socialism and communism," Bolton said. 

Bolton was critical of former President Barack Obama's policy on Cuba and said Trump was going to correct the policy that contributed to the decline in Venezuela. The Monroe doctrine, which makes the U.S. responsible for the hemisphere's stability, "is alive and well," he said.

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