The U.S. State Department has announced sweeping visa revocations and restrictions targeting several foreign officials.

Visa restrictions have been imposed on officials and their family members from several regions—including Brazil, Cuba and Grenada—for their alleged participation in facilitating Cuba's medical mission program.

Newsweek has contacted the U.S. State Department for comment via contact form outside office hours.

Why It Matters

The latest visa restrictions signal the Trump administration's tougher approach to confronting Cuba's overseas medical mission programs and penalizing governments that participate in or facilitate them.

U.S. President Donald Trump 's government has deployed hard-line policies toward the communist country. For decades, Cuba has deployed medi

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