The U.S. government issued its tenth round of unilateral coercive measures against Cuba on Thursday, targeting the mining, foreign trade, construction and metallurgical sectors, as well as companies, individuals and a civil society institutions.

The latest sanctions list specifically names executives from the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), the Ministry of Construction, the Commandant Ernesto Che Guevara Nickel Company, the importer-exporter Metalcuba, the Geominero Salinero Business Group (Geominsal), and the metallurgical products importer Acinox Comercial.

Also designated were the trade management firm Coratur, the Central Supply and Sales Enterprise for Heavy Transport Equipment and Parts (Transimport), the General Goods Marketing Enterprise (Consumimport), and the employment agency Acorec.

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Presenting the new package, the State Department—led by Marco Rubio, the chief proponent of the maximum-pressure policy against the island—said it advances the Trump administration’s comprehensive initiative to end Cuba’s “subversive anti-American activities”.

The Cuban regime has spent decades using front groups to infiltrate, corrupt, and radicalize Americans. Today, I’m sanctioning the leadership of ICAP, which is one of the primary organizations involved in these efforts—including convicted Cuban spy Fernando González Llort—and…

— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) August 20, 2026

Rubio maintained the tone of Executive Order 14404, signed by Trump on May 1 and serving as the basis for the current wave of sanctions, which affirms that the embargo is not a bilateral issue by extending its extraterritorial character and internationalization—forcing third countries, their companies and citizens, under threat of sanctions, to cut commercial and business ties with Cuba.

In an initial reaction to the new package, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla denounced on X that Rubio is promoting an offensive that primarily affects the Cuban population. Rodríguez Parrilla stated that the U.S. secretary of state “continues to punish Cuban companies with the deliberate purpose of harming our economy and preventing the Cuban government from guaranteeing basic services to the population, which are already faced with a critical situation as a result of the blockade.” He specified that, in practice, the State Department’s illegal coercive measures obstruct the transport of containers with food, medicines and medical devices, mostly acquired by private Cuban MSMEs.

The #US Secretary of State continues to punish Cuban companies with the deliberate purpose of harming our economy and prevent the government of #Cuba from guaranteeing basic services for the population, which are already faced with a critical situation as a result of the… pic.twitter.com/uAmm1UVLRX

— Bruno Rodríguez P (@BrunoRguezP) August 20, 2026

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