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Meliá withdraws from Cuba as US pressure tightens

Meliá has announced it is withdrawing from Cuba, effective Friday, citing significant operational, legal, economic and financial difficulties amid new US sanctions. The move follows sanctions targeting Cuba’s tourism ministry and GAESA, intensifying a pre-existing crisis in the island’s tourism sector.