[CUBA-EO]

[Cuba-EO] is the Office of Foreign Assets Control's SDN list programme tag for designations made under Executive Order 14404, the personal-sanctions architecture targeting Cuban officials and adult relatives signed by President Trump on 1 May 2026. The tag identifies the legal authority under which an entry is listed, distinguishing EO 14404 designations from the long-standing [Cuba] programme tag attached to Cuban Assets Control Regulations listings.

OFAC applied the [Cuba-EO] tag for the first time on 7 May 2026, when Ania Guillermina Lastres Morera was added to the SDN list as the inaugural individual designation under EO 14404. On the same date OFAC also extended the [Cuba-EO] tag onto pre-existing [Cuba] entries for GAESA (Grupo de Administración Empresarial S.A., the Cuban military's economic conglomerate) and Moa Nickel SA, the joint-venture mining entity, signalling layered overlay rather than wholesale replacement.

The practical effect of the tag is to clarify, for compliance teams at banks and shippers, which legal authority underlies a given designation and therefore which licensing pathway applies. Cuba General License 1, published the same day, functions as a savings clause aligning EO 14404 with existing CACR authorisations. The dual-tag approach preserves all prior CACR prohibitions while adding the EO 14404 personal-sanctions overlay, complicating any future negotiated easing because relief would require lifting tags under both authorities.