Secretary of State Marco Rubio dropped the hammer on subversive communist networks operating in our hemisphere on Thursday.
Rubio announced the U.S. would be sanctioning a variety of different entities.
The United States will not tolerate subversive communist networks in our hemisphere. The Marxist Cuban regime relies on a web of state-owned enterprises, joint ventures, and offshore intermediaries to keep its systems running, and its foreign backers supply the military equipment that helps sustain the regime’s military forces and enables persistent threats to the American homeland. Today, I'm sanctioning eight entities and two individuals associated with the regime’s financial and shipping network, state-owned import and technical-support entities, and China-based suppliers of the regime's military forces. https://t.co/qDWCDAMtO8
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) November 5, 2026
The United States will not tolerate subversive communist networks in our hemisphere.
The Marxist Cuban regime relies on a web of state-owned enterprises, joint ventures, and offshore intermediaries to keep its systems running, and its foreign backers supply the military equipment that helps sustain the regime’s military forces and enables persistent threats to the American homeland.
Today, I'm sanctioning eight entities and two individuals associated with the regime’s financial and shipping network, state-owned import and technical-support entities, and China-based suppliers of the regime's military forces.
Rubio explained more in a press release. He wrote:
Cuba’s ruling elite is hoarding the island’s energy, shipping, and technology resources for its own enrichment, leaving the Cuban people to contend with blackouts, shortages, and a stagnant economy. The Marxist regime in Havana relies on a web of state-owned enterprises, joint ventures, and offshore intermediaries to keep this system running; its foreign backers supply the military equipment that helps sustain the regime’s military forces and enable its brutal repression, while propping up its persistent efforts to threaten, infiltrate and subvert the American homeland.
Today, pursuant to President Trump’s Executive Order (E.O.) 14404, “Imposing Sanctions on Those Responsible for Repression in Cuba and for Threats to United States National Security and Foreign Policy,” I am designating ten targets including additional Cuban elites, a crude oil shipping network, state-owned import and technical-support entities, and China-based suppliers of the regime’s military forces. I am also identifying five associated vessels as blocked property.
Among today’s targets is GUILLERMO FAUSTINO RODRIGUEZ LOPEZ CALLEJA, who is part of an extensive web of offshore shipping companies that move Cuban crude oil shipments to and from the island. I am also designating ANY RODRIGUEZ LASTRES, daughter of the previously designated Grupo de Administración Empresarial (GAESA) President Ania Guillermina Lastres Morera.
Additionally, the Department of the Treasury issued a determination pursuant to E.O. 14404 that authorizes the imposition of economic sanctions on any foreign person operating or having operated in the electronics, manufacturing, marine, and technology sectors of the Cuban economy.
The Trump Administration will not stand by while the Cuban regime funnels the island’s resources to its military elite, while regime insiders and their family members profit from opaque offshore networks, and while Cuba continues to serve as a staging ground for a global coalition of hostile anti-American actors to threaten, spy on, and plot against the United States and its interests.
This is a developing story. RedState will provide updates as more information becomes available.
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