US State Department Cuba Sanctions

Several lists of Cuban companies and hotels that are blocked by the US State Department separately from the sanctions lists maintained by the Treasury.

Data overview 

Entities:
Total1,277
Searchable556
Targets556
Entity types:
Companies556
Countries:
Cuba556
Publisher:US State Department (DOS) · United States

The Counter Threat Finance and Sanctions division (TFS) is responsible for developing and implementing sanctions to counter threats to national security posed by particular activities, terrorist groups and countries. TFS advises the Secretary on economic sanctions strategies to achieve U.S. foreign policy objectives and works with other agencies to enact such strategies.

Collections:in Consolidated Sanctions · OpenSanctions Default · Sanctioned Securities · United States Sanctions
Information:www.state.gov
Source data:raw.githubusercontent.com · CSV
Tags:list.sanction · target.cu · juris.us · issuer.west
Coverage:added · frequency: monthly
Last processed:
2026-09-14 06:02:02 · v. 20260914060202-gdr · change statistics...
Last change:

Bulk download 

Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.

File nameExport typeSize
accommodations.csvSource data83.65 KB
entities.ftm.jsonFollowTheMoney entities734.7 KB
names.txtTarget names text file13.89 KB
restricted_entities.csvSource data47.92 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format392.01 KB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON832.58 KB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV142.17 KB

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Using the API 

You can query the data in this dataset via these API endpoints:

For entity matching, use the /match endpoint:
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint:
Use the Reconciliation API in OpenRefine:

Programs2 

This dataset consolidates entities targeted by the following sanctions programs, policy regimes or sub-lists:

IDTitleIssuerTarget countries
[US-DOS-CU-PAL]Cuba Prohibited Accommodations ListState United States
Cuba
[US-DOS-CU-REA]List of Restricted Entities and Subentities Associated With CubaState United States
Cuba

Recent additions 

The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:

AddedNameTypeCountries
Hotel PlazaCompanyCuba
Club Amigo Carisol – Los CoralesCompanyCuba
Ma DoloresCompanyCuba
Villa Los CaneyesCompanyCuba
Villa GuamáCompanyCuba
Marea del PortilloCompanyCuba
Villa Don LinoCompanyCuba
San BasilioCompanyCuba
Hotel KawamaCompanyCuba
Villa La GranjitaCompanyCuba
Playa LargaCompanyCuba
Hotel FloridaCompanyCuba
Hotel TelégrafoCompanyCuba
Meliá Costa ReyCompanyCuba
Meliá Trinidad PenínsulaCompanyCuba
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