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Trump Threatens a Second Embargo of Cuba
A Cuban supporter waves a Cuban flag in front of the country's embassy after it re-opened for the first time in 54 years July 20, 2015, in Washington, D.C.
MARK WILSON / GETTY IMAGES
BY
Marjorie Cohn, Truthout
PUBLISHED
February 24, 2019
The Trump administration is threatening to unleash a flood of lawsuits involving Cuba, which no U.S. president has ever done. It has set a deadline of March 2 to announce whether it will create, in the words of the National Lawyers Guild, a second embargo of Cuba one that would be very difficult to dismantle in the future.
Trump may give current U.S. citizens standing to sue in U.S. courts even if they were Cuban citizens when the Cuban government nationalized their property after the 1959 Revolution. They would be able to bring lawsuits against U.S. and foreign companies that allegedly profit from the nationalized properties.
In accordance with international law, the Cuban government had offered compensation to U.S. nationals for the taking of their property, as I explain below. If Trump permits myriad new lawsuits to proceed, it would unleash a tsunami of litigation that would harm U.S. companies and punish the Cuban people even more.
For 59 years, the United States has maintained a cruel embargo against Cuba. The embargo on Cuba is the most comprehensive set of U.S. sanctions on any country, including the other countries designated by the U.S. government to be state sponsors of terrorism Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria, according to the U.S. government.
In 1960, the Eisenhower administration declared a partial embargo on trade with Cuba in an attempt to pressure Cuba to change its form of government. The embargo was prompted by a secret State Department memorandum that proposed a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.
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Trump Threatens a Second Embargo of Cuba (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Feb 2019
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elleng
(131,370 posts)1. Such a good idea!
B*tard!
'If Trump permits myriad new lawsuits to proceed, it would unleash a tsunami of litigation that would harm U.S. companies and punish the Cuban people even more.'
Let's let him feel the harm.
sandensea
(21,713 posts)2. He must think this will guarantee him Florida.
No, Mr. President. Those would be the vote machine hackers from Russia.