An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent detains Adys Lastres Morera in Miami. Lastres Morera is the sister of Guillermina Lastres Morera, the general who runs GAESA, the military conglomerate that runs most of Cuba’s economy.
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The Trump administration has detained in Miami the sister of the top Cuban official who heads the multi-billion-dollar military conglomerate that runs most of Cuba’s economy, the federal government announced on Thursday.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced in a press release that Adys Lastres Morera was in custody, after the State Department revoked her green card, saying she represented a threat to national security.
Lastres Morera is the sister of Ania Guillermina Lastres Morena, who runs the umbrella group known as GAESA that is part of the Cuban military. A Miami Herald investigation found that the Cuban military has an estimated $18 billion dollars in GAESA’s accounts as the country’s economic collapses and its population lives through a humanitarian crisis.
In a separate statement, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced in a social media posting that “there will be nowhere on this Earth — much less in our country — where foreign nationals who threaten our national security can live lavishly.”
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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Syra Ortiz Blanes covers immigration for the Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald. Previously, she was the Puerto Rico and Spanish Caribbean reporter for the Heralds through Report for America.