Szubin is the director of the Office for Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), which
sees to it that the US sanctions against states, enterprises and people are fulfilled, the Cuban Foreign Ministry’s web site reports.

During a news conference, the official said that last week his government adjusted the regime of sanctions against these three nations to allow the export of their products to US enterprises of services and systems related to personal communication through the Internet.

He cited the increase in 2009 in the use of social sites and of the Internet by people opposing the Iranian government.

Szubin pointed out that this activity, by way of tools like the Twitter and Facebook web sites and instant messages, eliminated doubts that personal communication systems and its extended availability would favor what he described as "a democratic change in some of the most oppressive regimes on Earth."

Then, we’re doing our part (…), open that world to the peoples of Iran, Cuba and Sudan, he declared.

On March 3, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez denounced a new subversive escalation against the island, during his speech before the UN Human rights Council in Geneva.

The Cuban FM highlighted that they try to present mercenaries as patriots, paid US agents in Cuban territory as dissidents, and unpatriotic criminals as prisoners of conscience.

Rodriguez illustrated that "the powerful machine of the empire doesn’t hesitate to use a reoffender condemned in due process for common crimes and later on recruited in prison to present him as a fighter for human rights”.