The State Department imposed blocking sanctions on nine entities and two individuals under Executive Order 14404, targeting three tracks: Cuba's energy sector (a state oil R&D arm and two fuel importers), a GAESA sanctions-evasion scheme in which the regime restructured ownership of the Port of Mariel's container terminal through shell entities to shield it from U.S. sanctions, and Cuba's forced-labor overseas medical missions program reaching the Cuban Health Minister and the state bodies that export and staff the missions.