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Trump administration announces new sanctions against top Cuban Communist Party officials

MIAMI — President Donald Trump’s administration announced new sanctions on Monday against a group of top Cuban Communist Party officials.

The U.S. State Department announced designating 11 “regime-aligned elites” associated with Cuba’s security apparatus, as well as three Cuban government bodies.

The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control also released a list of nine people sanctioned. Both lists included the Directorate of Intelligence of Cuba, also known as DGI or G2.

It also included three generals — Maj. Gen. Eugenio Armando Rabilero Aguilera; Maj. Gen. Raúl Cuba Villar Kessel; Gen. Joaquin Quintas Sola — and Jose Miguel Gomez Del Vallin, Cuba’s chief of staff of military counterintelligence.

The list also included Vicente de la O Levy, Cuba’s minister of energy and mines; Rosabel Gamón Verde, Cuba’s minister of justice; and Mayra Arevich Marin, the minister of communications.

The others in the list were Juan Esteban Lazo Hernandez, the president ​of the Cuban National Assembly; and Dr. Roberto Tomás Morales Ojeda, secretary of the party’s Organization of the Central Committee.

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Andrea Torres

The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.