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Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday designated five Cuban entities and one member of the extended Castro family under a Trump administration executive order targeting revenue streams for Havana's government.
The action expands a pressure campaign against Grupo de Administración Empresarial S.A., the state-run conglomerate Rubio described as "the financial muscle behind the Cuban regime's repressive security apparatus," and reaches into Cuba's mining sector through the designation of state-owned GeoMinera.
GAESA's Financial and Logistics Network Targeted Three of the five newly designated entities carry links to GAESA, which was itself previously designated by the United States.
Two of those three are GAESA-linked financial institutions that Rubio said move money on the regime's behalf. The third is a GAESA-linked logistics company that Rubio said executes the regime's directives across Cuba.
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