ANTEX S.A.

ANTEX S.A. (Corporación Antillana Exportadora) is a subsidiary of GAESA, the Cuban military's business conglomerate. Washington placed ANTEX in the 13 July 2026 sanctions tranche, one of ten Cuban entities added that day under Executive Order 14404's "instruments of repression" category, grouped alongside Cuba's Ministry of Tourism and five other funding-linked entities.

The department's stated rationale is that ANTEX "manages the export of Cuban forced labor to Angola", the first explicitly forced-labour rationale used in the EO 14404 campaign to date; that specific claim rests on a State Department page that could not be independently re-verified in this research pass and is attributed here as the department's position rather than confirmed fact. Separately, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights holds an active, general finding that conditions on Cuba's overseas medical missions, including salary retention and restricted movement, are compatible with forced labour, though that finding is not specific to ANTEX.

Cuba's government response to the 13 July wave, delivered by Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, addressed the sanctions package broadly as "criminal and genocidal" without directly engaging the Angola allegation against ANTEX by name.