ICE Arrested the Sister of Cuba’s GAESA Chief — Then Rubio Revoked Her Green Card
On May 22, 2026, ICE/HSI arrested Adys Lastres Morera in Miami. She is the sister of Ania Guillermina Lastres Morera, executive president of GAESA — the Cuban military conglomerate that controls an estimated 40–70% of Cuba’s entire economy through Gaviota (tourism), CIMEX, TRD Caribe, and the Port of Mariel. Adys had been a permanent resident in Boca Raton since 2023 and was listed as the manager of two Florida real-estate LLCs — Remas Investments LLC (formed April 26, 2024) and Sta Elena Investments LLC (formed January 14, 2025), both incorporated after her green card. Secretary of State Marco Rubio terminated her permanent-resident status under the Immigration and Nationality Act’s foreign-policy provision, and the Department of Homeland Security took her into custody.
The easy read is a single arrest. But the same playbook just ran on the family of Qassem Soleimani, whose relatives had their U.S. green cards revoked in Los Angeles — different regime, same pattern. Where the revolution’s own ruling family chooses to live, invest, and park money is not Havana: the residences are in Boca Raton and the corporate paper runs through Panama (Anlamex Corp.; Lukenwest Holdings, S.A.) and Florida — never Havana. Read alongside Executive Order 14404 and the May 7 OFAC designation of GAESA, Ania Lastres Morera, and Moa Nickel S.A., the move signals something narrower than a forecast: the safe exit to Florida is closing. This is a trend read, not a prediction of any specific outcome for Cuba. Three things tell you how Havana reads it — who the regime puts forward to negotiate, where its money moves next, and how fast it feels the squeeze.
Eric Garland is an intelligence analyst personally sanctioned by the Russian Federation in May 2022 for his work on Russian intelligence operations. He is the author of the 2016 “Game Theory” thread, named by The New York Times as one of the 25 most important tweets in history.
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ICE / Homeland Security Investigations — press release on the arrest of Adys Lastres Morera, May 22, 2026
U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesperson — termination of permanent-resident status under the INA foreign-policy provision, May 2026
Executive Order 14404 — signed May 1, 2026
U.S. Department of the Treasury, OFAC — SDN designation (GAESA; Ania Lastres Morera; Moa Nickel S.A.), May 7, 2026
Reuters · CBS News · NBC Miami — May 21–22, 2026
OpenCorporates — Adys Lastres Morera (Remas Investments LLC; Sta Elena Investments LLC — Florida, US)
OpenCorporates — Ania G. Lastres Morera (Anlamex Corp.; Lukenwest Holdings, S.A. — Panama)
