ANTEX S.A.

ANTEX S.A. (Corporación Antillana Exportadora), a subsidiary of the military-run conglomerate GAESA, was designated by the US State Department on 13 July 2026 under Executive Order 14404, in the 'instruments of repression' cluster of that day's ten-entity wave.

The State Department's stated rationale, as described in its release, is that ANTEX 'manages the export of Cuban forced labor to Angola'; that specific claim rests on a State Department page that could not be independently re-verified in this research pass and should be attributed as the department's stated position rather than treated as independently confirmed. It is the first explicitly forced-labour rationale used in the EO 14404 campaign to date. Separately, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has an active, general finding characterising conditions on Cuba's overseas medical missions, such as salary retention and restricted movement, as 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 forced-labour allegation by name.