U.S. Sanctions Five Cuban Entities and Eight Military Officials

The United States has imposed new sanctions on five Cuban state entities and eight military officials, including the Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, Álvaro López Miera. The U.S. administration, under President Donald Trump, stated the measures are intended to protect national security by targeting those facilitating military cooperation with U.S. adversaries and the acquisition of weaponry for the island.

The sanctioned entities include Tecnoimport, Duna S.A., the Union of Military Industry (UIM), and the military industrial company Yuri Gagarin. Also included is Empresa Cubana Exportadora e Importadora de Servicios, Artículos y Productos Técnicos Especializados (Tecnotex), a subsidiary of the Gaesa military business conglomerate, which had previously been sanctioned by the U.S.

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Today, the (Donald) Trump Administration takes new measures to protect our national security by imposing sanctions on entities and individuals that facilitate Havana's military relations and arms shipments to the Cuban regime.

Among the sanctioned officials are the Chief of Staff of the Cuban Armed Forces, Roberto Legrá Sotolongo; the head of External Relations for the ministry, José Antonio Remón Rodríguez; and its economic director, Oscar Enrique Biosca Gallego. Additionally, sanctions were placed on Cuban military attachés in Russia, Mónica Milián Gómez, and China, Waldo Pérez Cortés, along with the general directors of UIM and Tecnoimport.

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The Cuban communist regime is a state sponsor of terrorism that uses its military and intelligence apparatus to spy on the United States, as well as to serve as a platform for U.S. adversaries like Russia, China, and Iran to conduct operations against the country.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio asserted that the Cuban communist regime acts as a state sponsor of terrorism, using its military and intelligence apparatus to spy on the United States and serving as a platform for adversaries like Russia, China, and Iran. He also described Cuba's military and intelligence institutions as primary instruments of internal repression and centers of kleptocracy, largely through Gaesa.

These sanctions freeze any assets and property of the designated individuals and entities under U.S. jurisdiction and prohibit transactions between U.S. persons or institutions and the sanctioned parties. The move is part of a broader U.S. campaign to exert pressure on Cuba's government, compounding the economic crisis exacerbated by the U.S. blockade.

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Cuba's military and intelligence institutions are also the main instruments of internal repression and hotbeds of kleptocracy, primarily through Gaesa.