OFAC sanctions Cuban military-linked companies and six individuals, clarifies humanitarian trade
The Treasury Department added six Cuban individuals and five entities to its sanctions blacklist while assuring foreign suppliers that authorized food, medicine and medical-device shipments to Cuba are not targeted.
WASHINGTON, August 6, 2026 — The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions Thursday on six Cuban nationals and five entities, including state-owned military and technical-products companies, under an executive order targeting repression in Cuba and threats to U.S. national security and foreign policy.
The entities added to the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List are Tecnotex SA, Tecnoimport, Empresa Militar Industrial Yuri Gagarin, Sociedad Mercantil Duna SA and Union de Industria Militar. OFAC identified several of the companies as state-owned enterprises involved in defense activities, machinery, equipment or wholesale trade.
OFAC also designated Oscar Enrique Biosca Gallego, Monica Milian Gomez, Waldo Perez Cortes, Jose Antonio Remon Rodriguez, Heriberto Sanchez Alleyne and Roberto Jesus Viciana Mousset. Sanchez Alleyne was linked to Tecnoimport in the sanctions notice.
The agency separately updated the listings of Cuban military officials Roberto Legra Sotolongo and Alvaro Victoriano Lopez Miera, adding the Cuba sanctions authority to their existing Global Magnitsky designations.
In newly issued guidance, OFAC said the United States does not intend to target non-US persons for transactions involving food, agricultural commodities, medicine, medical devices, replacement parts or medical-device software updates supplied to Cuba. The policy extends to qualifying humanitarian transactions involving entities sanctioned under Executive Order 14404 or businesses owned at least 50% by sanctioned persons.
US persons participating in those transactions must continue to comply with Cuba-related General License 1 and the Cuban Assets Control Regulations. OFAC said it would consider other humanitarian requests individually and prioritize applications related to humanitarian activity.
The guidance also said the U.S. government was working to operationalize $100 million in assistance delivered directly to Cubans through independent organizations operating under appropriate authorizations.
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