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GAESA
Cuba's military conglomerate; OFAC designated its Mariel port transfer as sanctions evasion, 23 July 2026.
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#14 20 Aug
#13 31 Jul
GAESA was designated first, on 7 May
Cuba Dispatch#12 23 Jul
#12 23 Jul
Mentioned in: Licences wind down a Cuba hotel fund
Cuba Dispatch#12 23 Jul
Controlled the terminal before the mid-June transfer
Cuba Dispatch: OFAC names a Mariel evasion transfer#12 23 Jul
#12 23 Jul
Mentioned in: State TV smears the exiled artist
Cuba Dispatch#11 12 Jul
#11 9 Jul
#9 23 Jun
OFAC hits Cuba's main clearing bank
Cuba Dispatch#9 23 Jun
Mentioned in: Supreme Court reopens Cuba land suits
Cuba Dispatch#8 18 Jun
Mentioned in: Cuba opens its market in 176 steps
Cuba Dispatch#8 18 Jun
Lost its diaspora remittance monopoly to new private last-mile agents
Cuba Dispatch: Cuba legalises private banks, GAESA blacklisted#8 18 Jun
Brussels votes to punish, not bind
Cuba Dispatch#8 15 Jun
Mentioned in: Tourism falls 55.8% as the peso slides
Cuba Dispatch#6 5 Jun
Remained the designated entity whose transactional cover expired
Cuba Dispatch: GAESA wind-down window shuts 5 June#6 4 Jun
Mentioned in: Informal dollar hits record 600 pesos
Cuba Dispatch#7 4 Jun
Identified as a 50%-ownership trigger entity in FAQ 1258, exposing subsidiaries to secondary sanctions
Cuba Dispatch: Cuba's president lands on OFAC blacklist#6 3 Jun
Three more hotel chains quit Cuba
Cuba Dispatch#6 3 Jun
Visa, Mastercard cut off Cuban cards
Cuba Dispatch#6 3 Jun
Granma defends GAESA in rare rebuttal
Cuba Dispatch#6 3 Jun
Meliá drops 15 of its 34 Cuba hotels
Cuba Dispatch#5 18 May
#5 14 May
Mentioned in: Church aid moves as $100M offer stalls
Cuba Dispatch#4 9 May
Rubio meets Pope Leo XIV; Vatican track returns
Cuba Dispatch#4 7 May
EO 14404 numbered; Cuba GL 1 issued 7 May
Cuba Dispatch#4 7 May
#3 1 May
#2 10 Apr
State Department met Castro grandson off-track
Cuba Dispatch#1 7 Apr
Stood to benefit from CADECA recapturing remittance hard currency flows
Cuba Dispatch: CADECA opens cash dollar remittance windows#1 25 Mar
US opens Venezuela oil to Cuba's private sector
Cuba Dispatch#1 25 Mar
#1 18 Mar
Remained blocked from Venezuelan oil transactions under the carve-out
Cuba Dispatch: Treasury carves Cuba out of Venezuela oil easing#1 11 Feb