President Trump only first in all these with balls to do something and enforce this.
No mainstream coverage?. Haha, pull the plug on Obamas Socialist globalist agenda of normalization of Cuba.
The EU and other businesses using stolen properties from Cuban Americans plan to to sue of course. Article in spanish was google translated sort of half ass. “Demands” = “lawsuits”
https://elpais.com/internacional/2019/05/02/actualidad/1556819316_650598.html
“The entry into force of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, suspended by all the presidents of the United States from 1996 until this Thursday, is the last cartridge of the Administration of Donald Trump to drown the Cuban regime. This Thursday began to be presented the first demands of US citizens against international companies for profiting from properties confiscated by the Castro regime after the revolution. The measure also poses
a serious diplomatic conflict with the European Union .
The Carnival cruise group, based in Florida, is the target of the first two lawsuits filed Thursday. There are many more on the starting grid, some against Spanish companies. Mickael Behn, heir to a family originally from Kentucky and owner of the Havana Docks company in the port of Havana, could barely contain the tears as he left the courthouse in the southern district of Miami. "In the sixties, the Castro stole the property of my grandfather and today, at last, justice has been done," he said.
Beside him, under a light rain, just as elegantly dressed but more whole, Javier Garcia Bengoechea, resident in Jacksonville (Florida), heir of another family with properties in the port of Santiago de Cuba, tasted the end of a "crusade" that has been fighting ten years. "They told me it was a waste of time and money, but here we are," he said. Both had just filed lawsuits against Carnival-based giant Carnival, based in Florida, for taking advantage of properties "stolen" from their families by the Castro regime.
Since Thursday, US citizens (mainly of Cuban origin) can file lawsuits before the courts of the country against those who benefit from property confiscated in Cuba after the 1959 Revolution, and seek compensation for damages. Those of Bengoechea and Behn are the first, because both had notified the defendant 30 days in advance, a formality that allows them to now litigate for three times the value of the compensation. "There will be dozens more of these cases in the coming months, eventually there will be hundreds," explains Nick Gutierrez, president of the Association of Cuban Rangers, which has represented fifty potential plaintiffs for years.
"I'm the longest in this, but now there are many other lawyers who are also jumping, and are even offering representation against results, which makes it more accessible to more people," he says.
40 years later
The law for Freedom and Solidarity with Democracy in Cuba, better known as Helms-Burton, by the name of the legislators who promoted it, was approved after the Republicans regained control of the two Houses of Congress in 1995, the first time in 40 years, and in response to the shooting down in 1996 of two small planes operated by Cuban pilots flying in Cuban jurisdictional airspace. The norm supposed a hardening of the embargo to the communist regime. But it aroused a strong international rejection and a conflict with the European Union before the World Trade Organization (WTO), which led President Bill Clinton, under the powers provided by the law, to suspend two of its chapters: Title III, which allowed US citizens to sue foreign companies that profited from expropriated property, and Title IV, which provided for the rescission of visas to business managers. All the presidents since then have maintained the suspension.
But Donald Trump has decided that the full norm will come into force as part of his efforts to bring about political change not only in Cuba, but also in Venezuela, given Havana's support for the Nicolás Maduro regime.The idea is that the pressure discourage foreign companies to invest in the island and drown the Cuban regime.
Litigation can be "very long, expensive and uncertain," explains Gutiérrez. That is why the plaintiffs trust in reaching agreements with the companies. "We would prefer that they not invest in a totalitarian tyranny that has violated the rights of their people, and that exports repression to other peoples such as Venezuela. But we would be satisfied that at least they recognize us as the owners and that they pay us, because that is going to send an important message to other entrepreneurs that Cuba is not the best place to invest, "says Gutiérrez.
The Cuban exile has celebrated the news. And it continues with expectation the escalation of tension of the Administration of Trump with the regime and with its ally in Caracas. On the eve, rumors of an eventual military intervention in Venezuela dominated the circle of Cuban schemers at the doors of the restaurant Versailles, the epicenter of the exile in Little Havana, which dissolved overnight into the cry of "Viva Cuba libre!". Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat, director of the Cuban Democratic Directorate in Miami, warned that, from now on, "anyone who wants to invest in the island will have to think about it". "The free-bar season in Cuba is over", ditched.”
