The Trump administration is lifting a long-standing ban against U.S. citizens fi...
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration is lifting a long-standing ban against U.S. citizens filing lawsuits against foreign companies that use properties seized by Cuba’s Communist government since Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision, which will take effect on May 2, is strongly opposed by the European Union, whose companies have large business interests on the island. Trump’s national security adviser, John Bolton, will discuss on Wednesday the administration’s decision in a speech in Miami and announce new sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, countries he has branded a “troika of tyranny,” a senior U.S. official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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.
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