Also on Friday, a group of US representatives from Florida and New Jersey urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to sanction Cuba’s state-run entity that operates its overseas medical missions. The lawmakers — Representatives María Elvira Salazar, Mario Díaz-Balart, Carlos Giménez and Christopher Smith — argue in a letter that Comercializadora de Servicios Médicos Cubanos exploits Cuban healthcare professionals and generates revenue that helps sustain the island’s one-party rule.







