The US State Department designated ten Cuban entities under Executive Order 14404 on Monday 13 July, the largest single-day batch of the campaign bar the 18 May wave that took MININT (the Interior Ministry), the National Revolutionary Police and the intelligence directorate1. EO 14404 is the May 2026 order authorising sanctions against named Cuban officials and institutions. Monday's wave ended a pause of 15 to 16 days, the longest since the designations began on 7 May, and carries the cumulative count to roughly 31 named designations across six waves.
Four are instruments of repression: the Milicias de Tropas Territoriales, a part-time civilian paramilitary under the armed forces ministry; the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution; the Rapid Response Brigades, the armed civilian groups deployed against street protest since 2021; and ANTEX S.A., which the State release says manages the export of Cuban forced labour to Angola. Six are sources of funding: Enetec, Coreydan, GECOMEX, CAUDAL, GEMAR and the Ministry of Tourism (MINTUR). Neither the Angola rationale nor a tourism target had appeared anywhere in the campaign before 13 July. State.gov returned a "Technical Difficulties" placeholder on every fetch attempt during the reporting window, so the Angola rationale rests on cached search snippets rather than a live read of the primary release.
Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla called the package "criminal and genocidal"2. He answered the ten as a whole, and none of the corroborating reports have him engaging the Angola allegation by name. The campaign's target class has moved twice in six weeks: officials and security organs in May, financial plumbing in June when OFAC took Banco Financiero Internacional and four GAESA-linked firms, and now the earners and the movers. Each wave lands nearer the kitchen. Enetec and Coreydan are the two names Havana reached for three days later when it priced a cooking gas cylinder.
