MIAMI — Cuba’s Ministry of Tourism, or MINTUR, was among the list of state-owned companies and organizations that the Trump administration announced new sanctions for on Monday.

The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control announced the U.S. State Department had also issued a ban on transactions with Grupo Empresarial del Comercio Exterior, or GECOMEX, and Grupo Empresarial de Transporte Marítimo Portuario, or GEMAR.

The sanctions are part of a “comprehensive push to end the Cuban regime’s malign activities, both in Cuba and across our hemisphere,” a spokesperson for the U.S. State Department said in a statement on Monday.

The list includes two Havana-based state-owned companies in the energy sector, Enetec and Coreydan, and the Grupo Caudal S.A., which has subsidiaries involved in audits and insurance.

The list also included four enforcement organizations: Asociación de Combatientes de la Revolución Cubana, Milicias de Tropas Territoriales, Brigadas de Respuesta Rápida, and Comités de Defensa de la Revolución.

In a statement on X, U.S. Rep. Carlos Giménez described the organizations on Monday as “everyone who has participated in repressing the people in a ‘rapid response brigade’ or any militarized group.”

A group of Democrats — U.S. Reps. Delia Ramírez, Teresa Leger-Fernández, Maxine Dexter, and Mark Pocan — traveled to Cuba on Thursday with an itinerary that included a meeting with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel.

Ramírez, of Illinois; Leger-Fernández, of New Mexico; Dexter, of Oregon; and Pocan, of Wisconsin, were critical of the Trump administration’s pressure for change on the Communist island.

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