Trump Administration: Treasury Department and Asian Nation

trump administration: The Trump administration announced penalties against 13 people worldwide in all, according to The Chronicle Herald. They included Gambia's former president, the daughter of Uzbekistan's late dictator and the son of Russia's prosecutor general. The new sanctions were the most serious U.S. response so far to what it calls ethnic cleansing in the western part of the Southeast Asian nation. The sanctions were the first set imposed under a 2016 law, named after a Russian lawyer who died in prison, that empowers the Treasury Department to target officials anywhere for human rights violations and corruption. Washington progressively eased economic and political sanctions against Myanmar starting in 2012 to reward the country for its shift toward democracy after decades of military rule. The inclusion of Myanmar's Maung Maung Soe on the list was perhaps the most dramatic move in terms of U.S. foreign policy. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.