WASHINGTON: The Trump administration will allow lawsuits in U.S. courts for the first time against foreign companies that use properties Communist-ruled Cuba confiscated since Fidel Castro's revolution six decades ago, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday.
Title III of the Helms-Burton Act had been fully waived by every president over the past 23 years due to opposition from the international community and fears it could create chaos in the U.S. court system with a flood of lawsuits.The complete lifting of the ban could allow billions of dollars in legal claims to move forward in U.S. courts and likely antagonize Canada and Europe, whose companies have significant business holdings in Cuba.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said in a speech on Saturday that the United States"has pushed the precarious relations with our country back to the worst level ... trying to activate the hateful Helms-Burton Law, which aims to return us in principle to ... when we were a slave nation of another empire."Trump is going ahead despite protests by European leaders to U.S. counterparts.
In addition to halting any further waivers of Title III, the administration will begin enforcement of Helms-Burton's Title IV, which requires the denial of U.S. visas to those involved in"trafficking" confiscated properties in Cuba.
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