LIMA, Peru – The United States Government imposed visa restrictions on the spokesperson of the Cuban regime Pedro Jorge Velázquez, known as El Necio, as confirmed by official sources to Martí News.
The event responds to the recent measures announced by Washington against officials and those involved under Castroism in acts of harassment and harassment against US diplomats on the Island.
Velázquez would be one of the first people sanctioned in Cuba for his role in “campaigns of harassment, dissemination of sensitive content and intimidation actions directed against the Chargé d’Affaires of the United States Embassy in Havana, Mike Hammer,” the sources point out.
Last Thursday, the United States Undersecretary of State, Christopher Landau, assured that Washington knows the identity of the people who harassed to Hammer during recent tours of the Island and announced that it will respond, “among other things,” with visa sanctions against those involved.
“Small groups of agents of the Cuban regime have been harassing our distinguished Chargé d’Affaires in Havana, Ambassador Mike Hammer, as he travels around the Island in the performance of his diplomatic duties. I want these people to understand that we know who they are, and we will respond accordingly with, among other things, visa sanctions,” Landau wrote. on his official account on X.
In the same message he added: “Under basic standards of international law, diplomats must be free to carry out their duties without harassment from thugs.”
In the particular case of Velazquez, identified as El Necio on social networks, his participation within the Castro scheme transcends that of a simple content creator or political “influencer” on the internet, as he has stood out as an agent of the propaganda and repressive organs of the dictatorship.
From digital platforms, he points out Martí NewsVelazquez has maintained an active profile with publications directed against US officials and Cuban opponents.
Among the actions that the United States authorities attribute to Necio, the dissemination of images in which the license plates of diplomatic vehicles are observed, as well as information considered sensitive by security analysts, stand out.
In addition, the media’s official sources warned that the State Department continues to compile visual and documentary evidence about participants in acts of repudiation organized in front of the US Embassy on Havana’s Malecón.
