Last Updated: January 19, 2026
Roberto LEGRA SOTOLONGO
Position
Deputy Chief of the General Staff Revolutionary Armed Forces and Chief of the Directorate of Operations of the FAR
Nationality
Cuba
DoB
1955
Address
Havana, Cuba
Official reason
The targets of today’s designations are Roberto Legra Sotolongo (Legra) and Andres Laureano Gonzalez Brito (Gonzalez) of the Cuban Ministry of Revolutionary Armed Forces (MINFAR), and Abelardo Jimenez Gonzalez (Jimenez) of the Cuban Ministry of Interior (MININT). Since the beginning of the July 2021 protests in Cuba, the Cuban regime has used secur...
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https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0327
Date of listing
2021-08-19
Program information
Authority
US
Program
Executive Order 13818 - Global Magnitsky
Regime
OFAC-horizontal
Target State
Human Rights
Measures
Blocking Property, Suspending Entry
Sanctions Portfolio
• https://ofac.treasury.gov/faqs/topic/5441
Official Information
On December 23, 2016, the President signed the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (Pub. L. 114-328, Title XII, Subtitle F) (the “Act”) into law. The Act authorized the President to impose targeted sanctions on any foreign person the President determines is, among other things, responsible for extrajudicial killings, torture, or other ...
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