{"id":280167,"date":"2026-05-22T00:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T00:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/280167\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T00:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T00:26:07","slug":"trump-admin-detains-sister-of-top-gaesa-official-in-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/280167\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump admin detains sister of top GAESA official in Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/260521miami_0.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"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\u2019s economy.\" alt=\"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\u2019s economy.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        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\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>            Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s economy, the federal government announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s accounts as the country\u2019s economic collapses and its population lives through a humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate statement, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced in a social media posting that \u201cthere will be nowhere on this Earth \u2014 much less in our country \u2014 where foreign nationals who threaten our national security can live lavishly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/243203706\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Syra Ortiz Blanes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    el Nuevo Herald<\/p>\n<p>            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.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent detains Adys Lastres Morera in Miami. Lastres Morera is the sister of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-280167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}